capucine
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,691
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
capucine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Religieuse de l’ordre des Clarisses capucines. Pronounced \ka.py.sin\. Often confused with capucins and capuche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capucine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.py.sin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for capucine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.py.sin\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,691 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for capucine, with forms such as "acpucine", "capcuine", and "cappucine". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "capucins", "capuche", "capucin", 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 capucine, spelled C-A-P-U-C-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Religieuse de l’ordre des Clarisses capucines.
- 2Nom usuel de plusieurs plantes du genre Tropaeolum. En particulier Tropaeolum majus, plante de la famille des Tropaeolaceae (Tropaéolacées), originaire d’Amérique du Sud, ainsi nommée parce que sa fleur est terminée par un prolongement en forme de capuchon.
- 3Fleur que porte cette plante, de couleur jaune, orangée ou rouge, selon les variétés.
- 4Pièce des arquebuses ou des fusils, en forme d’anneau, qui assujettit le canon au bois.
- 5Petit entablement composé d’un talon et d’un larmier.
- 6Courbe de bois ou de fer qui lie l’éperon d’un navire avec l’étrave.
- 7Écuelle de terre à queue. Caquelon.
- 8Crayon à plombagine.
- 9Zone de couchage haute dans une autocaravane, au-dessus de la cabine de conduite, ce qui lui permet d’offrir un nombre de places plus important pour un même encombrement au sol.
- 10L’autocaravane elle-même, lorsqu’elle est pourvue d’une capucine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpucine,capcuine,cappucine,capuccine,capucien,capucinne,capucnie,capuicne,caupcine,ccapucine,cpaucine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capucine
Misspelling Variants of "capucine"
Frequency rank: #38,691 in French
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