compacité

\kɔ̃.pa.si.te\

/\kɔ̃.pa.si.te\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compacité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for compacité
PropertyValue
Headwordcompacité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.pa.si.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#58,511
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « compacité » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.compacitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « commette » (#58,510), « compresser » (#58,512), « conceptuelles » (#58,513). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « compacité » est au #58,511. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qualité de ce qui est compact.
  2. 2
    Intensité du champ gravitationnel à la surface d’un astre.
  3. 3
    Qualité d'un espace topologique vérifiant la propriété de Borel-Lebesgue : de tout recouvrement ouvert peut être extrait un sous-recouvrement fini.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how compacité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le théorème de la compacité.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "compacité"?
"compacité" is spelled C-O-M-P-A-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.pa.si.te\.
What does "compacité" mean?
As a noun, "compacité" means: Qualité de ce qui est compact.
How do you pronounce "compacité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "compacité" is \kɔ̃.pa.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "compacité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list