capuche
\ka.pyʃ\
The verdict
“capuche” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,467. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,467
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de vêtement jouant le rôle d'un chapeau en protégeant la tête de celui ou celle qui le porte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capuche · capuche · French
capuche · rank #19,467 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,467
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH bâtisse
Nearest frequency peer: bâtisse (-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 « capuche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- buvant
buvant
80,537 corpus weight
- bâtards
bâtards
80,536 corpus weight
- bâtisse
bâtisse
80,535 corpus weight
- capuche
capuche
80,534 corpus weight
- carapace
carapace
80,533 corpus weight
- caricatures
caricatures
80,532 corpus weight
What this shows « capuche » 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 | capuche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.pyʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capuche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around capuche (IPA \ka.pyʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,467 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pièce de vêtement jouant le rôle d'un chapeau en protégeant la tête de celui ou celle qui le porte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for capuche, with forms such as "acpuche", "capcuhe", and "cappuche". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "couché", "cruche", "capucin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is capuche, spelled C-A-P-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce de vêtement jouant le rôle d'un chapeau en protégeant la tête de celui ou celle qui le porte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how capuche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il pleut, n'oublie pas de mettre ta capuche.
Les vendeuses ont des capuches noires si rigides qu’elles doivent se placer face à face pour causer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpuche
- capcuhe
- cappuche
- capucche
- capuceh
- capuchhe
- capuhce
- caupche
- ccapuche
- cpauche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capuche - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "capuche", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).