capucin
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,324
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
capucin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Membre de l'ordre des frères mineurs capucins. Pronounced \ka.py.sɛ̃\. Often confused with capucins and capucine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capucin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.py.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for capucin is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.py.sɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #43,324 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for capucin, with forms such as "acpucin", "capcuin", and "cappucin". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "capucins", "capucine", "captain", and more, 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 capucin, spelled C-A-P-U-C-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Membre de l'ordre des frères mineurs capucins.
- 2Homme qui prêche la morale et la dévotion d'une manière affectée et triviale.
- 3Sajou, singe de la famille des Cébidés, ainsi nommé parce qu’il a une barbe rappelant celle des capucins.
- 4Nom vernaculaire du lièvre, en particulier dans la région des Ardennes.
- 5Nom donné à des coléoptères dont la tête est cachée sous le pronotum comme celle d’un moine sous la capuche.
- 6Variété de pigeon d'ornement.
- 7Papier épais et rigide de forme triangulaire que l'imprimeur colle dans la marge pour maintenir une feuille quand elle est trop petite.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpucin,capcuin,cappucin,capuccin,capucinn,capucni,capuicn,caupcin,ccapucin,cpaucin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capucin
Misspelling Variants of "capucin"
Frequency rank: #43,324 in French
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