capucines
\ka.py.sin\
The verdict
“capucines” is uncommon French (frequency #55,799 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,799
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de capucin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-capucines · capucines · French
capucines · rank #55,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,799
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cano
Nearest frequency peer: cano (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « capucines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cajun
cajun
44,205 corpus weight
- Cambrésis
Cambrésis
44,204 corpus weight
- cano
cano
44,203 corpus weight
- capucines
capucines
44,202 corpus weight
- carbonisé
carbonisé
44,201 corpus weight
- casta
casta
44,200 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « capucines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capucines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.py.sin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « capucines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
capucines is uncommon French at frequency #55,799 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.py.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de capucin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for capucines, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is capucines, spelled C-A-P-U-C-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de capucin.
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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