compact
French, noun/kɔ̃.pakt/
compact is spelled C-O-M-P-A-C-T (7 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Compact is a French masculine noun meaning “compact disc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Convention passée avec le pape, notamment celle relative à la collation des bénéfices”.
What does compact mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dense, compact (closely packed)
- 2
compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)
noun
- 1
masculinecompact disc
- 2
masculinemusic center (US), music centre (UK)
- 3
masculinecompact camera
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Condensé, resserré. 2. Pressé, étroitement uni. 3. Massif. 4. Dont le texte imprimé est très serré, en parlant d’un livre.
noun: 1. Convention passée avec le pape, notamment celle relative à la collation des bénéfices.
adjective: 1. Se dit d’un espace topologique qui est la réunion d’une suite croissante (Kₙ) de parties compactes.
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 compact
- compacte feminine
- compacts masculine plural
- compactes feminine plural
- σ-compacts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce compact?
- /kɔ̃.pakt/
- \kɔ̃.pakt\
- \siɡ.ma.kɔ̃.pakt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to compact
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is compact in French?
compact appears 3.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).