capuche

\ka.pyʃ\

/\ka.pyʃ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « capuche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

capuche vs couché
57% similar
capuche vs cruche
71% similar
capuche vs capucin
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for capuche
PropertyValue
Headwordcapuche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ka.pyʃ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#19,467
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « capuche »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.capuchese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bâtisse » (#19,466), « carapace » (#19,468), « bâtards » (#19,465). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « capuche » est au #19,467. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pièce de vêtement jouant le rôle d'un chapeau en protégeant la tête de celui ou celle qui le porte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how capuche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. S’il pleut, n'oublie pas de mettre ta capuche.
  2. 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.

acpuche2capcuhe2cappuche1capucche1capuceh2capuchhe1capuhce2caupche2
Edit distance from "capuche"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "capuche"?
"capuche" is spelled C-A-P-U-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ka.pyʃ\.
What does "capuche" mean?
As a noun, "capuche" means: Pièce de vêtement jouant le rôle d'un chapeau en protégeant la tête de celui ou celle qui le porte.
What words are commonly confused with "capuche"?
"capuche" is commonly confused with "couché", "cruche", "capucin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "capuche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "capuche" is \ka.pyʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "capuche" come from?
"capuche" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list