commissaire aux comptes
\kɔ.mi.sɛ.ʁ‿o kɔ̃t\
The verdict
“commissaire aux comptes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Organe chargé de contrôler la régularité des comptes d’une société ou d’une association.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commissaire aux comptes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.mi.sɛ.ʁ‿o kɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “commissaire aux comptes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for commissaire aux comptes is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ.mi.sɛ.ʁ‿o kɔ̃t\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Organe chargé de contrôler la régularité des comptes d’une société ou d’une association.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for commissaire aux comptes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is commissaire aux comptes, spelled C-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-I-R-E- -A-U-X- -C-O-M-P-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Organe chargé de contrôler la régularité des comptes d’une société ou d’une association.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-I-R-E- -A-U-X- -C-O-M-P-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.