Caputo
\ka.ˈpu.to\
The verdict
“Caputo” is uncommon French (frequency #87,425 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,425
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille italien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caputo · Caputo · French
Caputo · rank #87,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,425
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH carpeaux
Nearest frequency peer: carpeaux (+2 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 « Caputo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cameramen
cameramen
12,581 corpus weight
- Camil
Camil
12,580 corpus weight
- cannelée
cannelée
12,579 corpus weight
- Caputo
Caputo
12,576 corpus weight
- carpeaux
carpeaux
12,574 corpus weight
- cartésiennes
cartésiennes
12,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Caputo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caputo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ka.ˈpu.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Caputo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Caputo is uncommon French at frequency #87,425 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ka.ˈpu.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille italien.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Caputo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Caputo, spelled C-A-P-U-T-O.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille italien.
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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