caput
\ka.put\
The verdict
“caput” is uncommon French (frequency #89,502 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,502
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cassé, battu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caput · caput · French
caput · rank #89,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,502
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capitula
Nearest frequency peer: capitula (-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 « caput »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- caféiers
caféiers
10,502 corpus weight
- campagnol
campagnol
10,501 corpus weight
- capitula
capitula
10,500 corpus weight
- caput
caput
10,499 corpus weight
- caribéennes
caribéennes
10,498 corpus weight
- Castelsarra…
Castelsarrasin
10,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caput » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caput |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.put\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caput » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caput is uncommon French at frequency #89,502 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.put\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cassé, battu.".
caput has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is caput, spelled C-A-P-U-T.
Definition
- 1Cassé, battu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caput appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Fritz ont beau avoir dit : prisonniers d’honneur, morgen England caput, alles rétour Pariss ! Kôgnac ! Madam ! etc. nous sommes bien bouclés dans les barbelés et les sentinelles ont d’autres consignes que de refiler des tartines aux pleurnichards.
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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