compacité
\kɔ̃.pa.si.te\
The verdict
“compacité” is an uncommon French word, ranked #58,511 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,511
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est compact.
| 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) |
Where “compacité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for compacité is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.pa.si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #58,511 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
Synonyms
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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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Using “compacité”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-P-A-C-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ̃.pa.si.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.