Which to use
“captage” is a noun and “captivé” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,828
- “captage” frequency rank
- #47,207
- “captivé” frequency rank
- 91035
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | captage | captivé |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de capter (une source, de l’eau…). | Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe captiver. |
Where the eye mixes captage and captivé
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: captage vs captivé
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: captage is \kap.taʒ\ while captivé is \kap.ti.ve\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 91035, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
captage is recorded at frequency rank #43,828, classified as anoun, pronounced \kap.taʒ\. captivé is at rank #47,207, tagged as averb, pronounced \kap.ti.ve\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 91035, this pair ranks #4,217 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of captage vs captivé
Shared letters: acpt. Private to "captage": eg. Private to "captivé": ivé.
"captage" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "captivé" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- captage ← acptage · capatge · capptage · captaeg · captagge · captgae · capttage · catpage
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "captage" for "captivé" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "captage" or "captivé" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "captage" and "captivé" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "captage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "captivé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #4,217 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "captage" and "captivé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cantate vs captage". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #4,217 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.