captures
\kap.tyʁ\
The verdict
“captures” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,775. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,775
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de capture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-captures · captures · French
captures · rank #19,775 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,775
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calice
Nearest frequency peer: calice (-2 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 « captures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- buy
buy
80,230 corpus weight
- cadets
cadets
80,229 corpus weight
- calice
calice
80,228 corpus weight
- captures
captures
80,226 corpus weight
- chariots
chariots
80,223 corpus weight
- chouchou
chouchou
80,222 corpus weight
What this shows « captures » 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 | captures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kap.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « captures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around captures (IPA \kap.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,775 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de capture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for captures, with forms such as "acptures", "capptures", and "captrues". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cultures", "clôtures", "capture", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is captures, spelled C-A-P-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de capture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how captures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, responsable de la plupart des captures, la palangre permet, dans certains cas, de désengamer l’individu capturé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acptures
- capptures
- captrues
- capttures
- capturess
- capturres
- capturse
- caputres
- catpures
- ccaptures
- cpatures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of captures - 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
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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).