tropique du Capricorne
\tʁɔ.pik dy ka.pʁi.kɔʁn\
The verdict
“tropique du Capricorne” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tropique de l’hémisphère sud.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tropique du Capricorne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.pik dy ka.pʁi.kɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tropique du Capricorne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tropique du Capricorne is 22 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁɔ.pik dy ka.pʁi.kɔʁn\. 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: "Tropique de l’hémisphère sud.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tropique du Capricorne 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 tropique du Capricorne, spelled T-R-O-P-I-Q-U-E- -D-U- -C-A-P-R-I-C-O-R-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tropique de l’hémisphère sud.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-R-O-P-I-Q-U-E- -D-U- -C-A-P-R-I-C-O-R-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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