comfort
\kɔ̃.fɔʁ\
The verdict
“comfort” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,713
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne variante de confort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comfort · comfort · French
comfort · rank #38,713 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,713
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Comeau
Nearest frequency peer: Comeau (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « comfort »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coauteur
coauteur
61,291 corpus weight
- Coligny
Coligny
61,290 corpus weight
- Comeau
Comeau
61,289 corpus weight
- comfort
comfort
61,288 corpus weight
- compensées
compensées
61,286 corpus weight
- comportemen…
comportementales
61,285 corpus weight
What this shows « comfort » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comfort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comfort »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around comfort (IPA \kɔ̃.fɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,713 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ancienne variante de confort.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for comfort, with forms such as "ccomfort", "cmofort", and "cofmort". 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, "confort", "compost", "consort", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is comfort, spelled C-O-M-F-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Ancienne variante de confort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comfort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En montant un vaste escalier à tapis, où je remarquai toutes les recherches du comfort anglais, le cœur me battit; j’en rougissais, je démentais mon origine, mes sentiments, ma fierté, j’étais sottement bourgeois.
Si vous voulez bien me suivre, messieurs, je vais vous conduire dans vos cabines, qui ne manquent pas de comfort.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomfort
- cmofort
- cofmort
- comffort
- comforrt
- comfortt
- comfotr
- comfrot
- commfort
- comofrt
- ocmfort
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comfort - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).