compacité
\kɔ̃.pa.si.te\
The verdict
“compacité” is uncommon French (frequency #58,511 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,511
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est compact.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compacite · compacité · French
compacité · rank #58,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,511
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commette
Nearest frequency peer: commette (-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 « compacité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Colombiennes
Colombiennes
41,494 corpus weight
- commette
commette
41,491 corpus weight
- compacité
compacité
41,490 corpus weight
- compresser
compresser
41,489 corpus weight
- conceptuell…
conceptuelles
41,488 corpus weight
- concierges
concierges
41,487 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compacité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compacité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pa.si.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compacité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compacité is uncommon French at frequency #58,511 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.pa.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
compacité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is compacité, spelled C-O-M-P-A-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est compact.
- 2Intensité du champ gravitationnel à la surface d’un astre.
- 3Qualité d'un espace topologique vérifiant la propriété de Borel-Lebesgue : de tout recouvrement ouvert peut être extrait un sous-recouvrement fini.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how compacité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le théorème de la compacité.
Considérons un recouvrement ouvert de f(C), son image réciproque par f est un recouvrement ouvert de C. On peut en extraire un sous-recouvrement fini, l’image par f de ce sous-recouvrement est un sous-recouvrement de C extrait du recouvrement initial. L’existence d’un tel sous-recouvrement démontre la compacité de f(C).
Synonyms
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).