capturer
\kap.ty.ʁe\
The verdict
“capturer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,835. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,835
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’emparer d’un être vivant ou d’une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capturer · capturer · French
capturer · rank #10,835 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,835
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH camus
Nearest frequency peer: camus (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « capturer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brique
brique
89,169 corpus weight
- Brooklyn
Brooklyn
89,168 corpus weight
- camus
camus
89,167 corpus weight
- capturer
capturer
89,166 corpus weight
- Caraïbes
Caraïbes
89,165 corpus weight
- Charente
Charente
89,164 corpus weight
What this shows « capturer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capturer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kap.ty.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capturer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around capturer (IPA \kap.ty.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,835 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for capturer, with forms such as "acpturer", "cappturer", and "captruer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "captures", "clôturer", "capter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is capturer, spelled C-A-P-T-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1S’emparer d’un être vivant ou d’une chose.
- 2Photographier ou filmer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capturer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Mogador, nouvelle relâche, mais la barque envoyée à terre pour rapporter de l’eau fraîche faillit être capturée par les Arabes.
Guerre vaine, où l’on ne capturera pas des chevau-légers bleus, des hussards blancs, mais dans la même veste grise, des garçons de café, des peintres de Dresde qui découpent déjà en cubes la sentinelle berrichonne qui les conduit à l’arrière.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpturer
- cappturer
- captruer
- captturer
- captuerr
- capturerr
- capturrer
- caputrer
- catpurer
- ccapturer
- cpaturer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capturer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "capturer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).