Capua
\ˈka.pu.a\
The verdict
“Capua” is uncommon French (frequency #95,658 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,658
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capoue, commune et ville italienne de la province de Caserte, dans la région de Campanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capua · Capua · French
Capua · rank #95,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,658
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH captieux
Nearest frequency peer: captieux (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Capua »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- capitanat
capitanat
4,347 corpus weight
- capito
capito
4,346 corpus weight
- capitonnée
capitonnée
4,345 corpus weight
- captieux
captieux
4,344 corpus weight
- Capua
Capua
4,343 corpus weight
- Cargèse
Cargèse
4,341 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Capua » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Capua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈka.pu.a\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Capua » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Capua is uncommon French at frequency #95,658 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈka.pu.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capoue, commune et ville italienne de la province de Caserte, dans la région de Campanie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Capua in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Capua, spelled C-A-P-U-A.
Definition
- 1Capoue, commune et ville italienne de la province de Caserte, dans la région de Campanie.
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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