recapitalisation
\ʁə.ka.pi.ta.li.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“recapitalisation” is uncommon French (frequency #81,483 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,483
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Augmentation du capital d'une société pour lui faire atteindre un niveau optimal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recapitalisation · recapitalisation · French
recapitalisation · rank #81,483 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,483
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recommandera
Nearest frequency peer: recommandera (+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 « recapitalisation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rament
rament
18,521 corpus weight
- rationalisé
rationalisé
18,520 corpus weight
- recapitalis…
recapitalisation
18,518 corpus weight
- recommandera
recommandera
18,517 corpus weight
- recouvrez
recouvrez
18,516 corpus weight
- redemandé
redemandé
18,515 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recapitalisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recapitalisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ka.pi.ta.li.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #81,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recapitalisation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recapitalisation is uncommon French at frequency #81,483 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.ka.pi.ta.li.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Augmentation du capital d'une société pour lui faire atteindre un niveau optimal.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for recapitalisation, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is recapitalisation, spelled R-E-C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Augmentation du capital d'une société pour lui faire atteindre un niveau optimal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recapitalisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Julien Dray (PS), interrogé dimanche sur une convocation à l'Élysée du directeur du Monde à propos de la recapitalisation de ce journal, y a vu une "mainmise du pouvoir politique" sur les médias, qu'il juge "insupportable".
This word in other languages
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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