compacité
French, noun/kɔ̃.pa.si.te/
compacité is spelled C-O-M-P-A-C-I-T-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 58,502nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Compacité is a French feminine noun meaning “compactness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est compact”.
What does compacité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecompactness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de ce qui est compact. 2. Intensité du champ gravitationnel à la surface d’un astre. 3. Qualité d'un espace topologique vérifiant la propriété de Borel-Lebesgue : de tout recouvrement ouvert peut être extrait un sous-recouvrement fini.
noun: 1. Caractéristique de ce qui est σ-compact, propriété d’être σ-compact.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of compacité
- compacités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce compacité?
- /kɔ̃.pa.si.te/
- \kɔ̃.pa.si.te\
- \siɡ.ma.kɔ̃.pa.si.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to compacité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is compacité in French?
compacité appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).