combatte
\kɔ̃.bat\
The verdict
“combatte” is uncommon French (frequency #86,555 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,555
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de combattre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-combatte · combatte · French
combatte · rank #86,555 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,555
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH CNRC
Nearest frequency peer: CNRC (-2 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 « combatte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cloutés
cloutés
13,450 corpus weight
- cléricaux
cléricaux
13,449 corpus weight
- CNRC
CNRC
13,448 corpus weight
- combatte
combatte
13,446 corpus weight
- commenciez
commenciez
13,444 corpus weight
- compatissan…
compatissants
13,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « combatte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | combatte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.bat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « combatte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
combatte is uncommon French at frequency #86,555 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.bat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for combatte, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is combatte, spelled C-O-M-B-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de combattre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de combattre.
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.
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