# captage vs captivé

> French confusable word pair

## The two words

### captage
*noun · IPA \kap.taʒ\ · frequency rank #43,828*
Action de capter (une source, de l’eau…).

### captivé
*verb · IPA \kap.ti.ve\ · frequency rank #47,207*
Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe captiver.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/fr/vs/captage-vs-captive