capuchon
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,684
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
capuchon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Couverture de tête qui se rabat en avant ou se rejette en arrière à volonté et qui fait partie de certains vêtements. Pronounced \ka.py.ʃɔ̃\. Often confused with capucin and capuche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capuchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.py.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for capuchon is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.py.ʃɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,684 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for capuchon, with forms such as "acpuchon", "capcuhon", and "cappuchon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "capucin", "capuche", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is capuchon, spelled C-A-P-U-C-H-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Couverture de tête qui se rabat en avant ou se rejette en arrière à volonté et qui fait partie de certains vêtements.
- 2Repli mobile de peau et de muqueuse coulissant et non roulant, qui couvre plus ou moins le gland du clitoris de la femme et le protège à l’état de flaccidité.
- 3Prolongement creux et conique, plus ou moins long, en forme de sac ou de casque, qu’on remarque dans les pétales et sépales de certaines plantes, comme les aconits, etc.
- 4Synonyme de aconit napel (espèce de plantes).
- 5Ce qui a, ou ce qui rappelle la forme d’un capuchon (couvercle d’un tuyau, de cheminée ou de locomotive ; fermeture d’un stylo…)
- 6Tôle conique que l'on dispose au dessus d'un conduit de cheminée et qui protège de l'entrée de l’eau on dit aussi mitre.
- 7Guerre du capuchon : Discorde qui éclata au XIIIᵉ siècle sur la longueur des capuchons des moines.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpuchon,capcuhon,cappuchon,capucchon,capuchhon,capuchno,capuchonn,capucohn,capuhcon,caupchon,ccapuchon,cpauchon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "capuchon"
Frequency rank: #29,684 in French
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