comédie
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,188
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
comédie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Œuvre dramatique, en prose ou en vers, dont l’action a pour objet de divertir, soit par la peinture des mœurs et des ridicules, soit par des situations plaisantes. Pronounced \kɔ.me.di\. It ranks #3,188 in French word frequency. Often confused with comète and comedy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comédie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.me.di\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comédie is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.me.di\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,188 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for comédie, with forms such as "ccomédie", "cmoédie", and "comdéie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "comète", "comedy", "comédien", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is comédie, spelled C-O-M-É-D-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Œuvre dramatique, en prose ou en vers, dont l’action a pour objet de divertir, soit par la peinture des mœurs et des ridicules, soit par des situations plaisantes.
- 2Art de composer des comédies.
- 3Se dit des actions qui ont quelque chose de plaisant.
- 4Feinte.
- 5Troupe des acteurs qui appartiennent à un même théâtre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomédie,cmoédie,comdéie,comedie,commédie,coméddie,comédei,coméide,coémdie,ocmédie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comédie
Misspelling Variants of "comédie"
Frequency rank: #3,188 in French
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