Which to use
“capture” and “captures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,793
- “capture” frequency rank
- #19,775
- “captures” frequency rank
- 26568
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | capture | captures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de capturer ou résultat de cette action. | Pluriel de capture. |
Same sound, different letters: capture vs captures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - capture and captures
This is the hard kind. capture and captures are pronounced identically (\kap.tyʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “capture” sits inside “captures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26568, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
capture is recorded at frequency rank #6,793, classified as anoun, pronounced \kap.tyʁ\. captures is at rank #19,775, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kap.tyʁ\.
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 26568, this pair ranks #334,188 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of capture vs captures
Shared letters: aceprtu. Private to "capture": -. Private to "captures": s.
"capture" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "captures" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "capture" and "captures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "capture" or "captures" show up more?
After this comparison
"capture" and "captures" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "capture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "captures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #334,188 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "capture" and "captures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "capturée vs captures". 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 #334,188 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.