comateux

\kɔ.ma.tø\

/\kɔ.ma.tø\/ adj

The verdict

“comateux” is uncommon French (frequency #72,197 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,197
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au coma.

Corpus desk

Index FR-comateux · comateux · French

comateux · rank #72,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,197
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH collectant

Nearest frequency peer: collectant (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « comateux »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comateux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for comateux
PropertyValue
Headwordcomateux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ.ma.tø\
Letters8
Frequency rank#72,197
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « comateux » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).comateuxtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « collectant » (#72,196), « combattues » (#72,198), « coda » (#72,195). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « comateux » est au #72,197. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

comateux is uncommon French at frequency #72,197 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.ma.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au coma.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for comateux, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is comateux, spelled C-O-M-A-T-E-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif au coma.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how comateux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En voyant que son pénitent en revenait toujours à la honte de son inertie et à cet état de comateuse doléance dans lequel le plongeait la transe du Sacrement, le vieux prêtre lui dit : […].
  2. Lorsqu’on affirme qu’un patient comateux « s’enfonce » ou au contraire qu’il « remonte », la métaphore que nous utilisons vient implicitement de Jackson. — (Lionel Naccache, Le Nouvel Inconscient : Freud, le Christophe Colomb des neurosciences, Odile Jacob, 2009, page 59)

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comateux"?
"comateux" is spelled C-O-M-A-T-E-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ma.tø\.
What does "comateux" mean?
As an adjective, "comateux" means: Relatif au coma.
How do you pronounce "comateux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comateux" is \kɔ.ma.tø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "comateux", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list