maison de capitaines
\mɛ.zɔ̃ də ka.pi.tɛn\
The verdict
“maison de capitaines” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Pluriel de maison de capitaine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maison de capitaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.zɔ̃ də ka.pi.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maison de capitaines” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maison de capitaines is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛ.zɔ̃ də ka.pi.tɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de maison de capitaine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for maison de capitaines in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 maison de capitaines, spelled M-A-I-S-O-N- -D-E- -C-A-P-I-T-A-I-N-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maison de capitaine.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-I-S-O-N- -D-E- -C-A-P-I-T-A-I-N-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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