compatriot
/kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət/noun, adjective
compatriot is spelled C-O-M-P-A-T-R-I-O-T. The wrong spelling people search most is compatriate: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Compatriot is a noun meaning “Somebody from one's own country”. The plural of compatriot is compatriots.
How many letters and syllables are in compatriot?
| Letters | 10: C-O-M-P-A-T-R-I-O-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,998th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, compatriate, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell compatriot?
Compatriot is spelled C-O-M-P-A-T-R-I-O-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for compatriot in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is compatriot?
Compatriot appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce compatriot?
- /kəmˈpeɪtɹi.ət/
- /kəmˈpætɹi.ət/
Compatriot has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-compatriot.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of compatriot
- compatriots plural
- more compatriot comparative
- most compatriot superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does compatriot mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Somebody from one's own country.
adjective
- 1
Of the same country; especially, being countrymen and having a common sentiment of patriotism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Compatriot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense somebody from one's own country:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | compatriote |
| German | Landsmann, Landsmännin, Landsfrau, Volksgenosse, Volksgenossin |
| Portuguese | compatriota, compatrício, patrício |
| Spanish | compatriota, paisano, coterráneo, compatricio, conterráneo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does compatriot come from?
Borrowed from French compatriote, itself borrowed from Latin compatriota. By surface analysis, com- + patriot. Displaced native Old English ġelanda.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).