compacts
\kɔ̃.pakt\
The verdict
“compacts” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,491. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,491
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de compact.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compacts · compacts · French
compacts · rank #28,491 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,491
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH communiquant
Nearest frequency peer: communiquant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « compacts »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- commerciali…
commercialisée
71,512 corpus weight
- communiquant
communiquant
71,511 corpus weight
- compacts
compacts
71,510 corpus weight
- comparent
comparent
71,509 corpus weight
- comparées
comparées
71,508 corpus weight
- compilé
compilé
71,507 corpus weight
What this shows « compacts » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compacts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pakt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « compacts »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around compacts (IPA \kɔ̃.pakt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,491 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de compact.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for compacts, with forms such as "ccompacts", "cmopacts", and "comapcts". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "contacts", "complets", "complots", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is compacts, spelled C-O-M-P-A-C-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de compact.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compacts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En dépit des règles très strictes imposées par les organisateurs pour tenter de régulariser un peu le temps des visites, des groupes de plus en plus compacts pourvus de laissez-passer et de coupe-file de toutes sortes forçaient la vigilance des gardiens et restaient collés le nez au tableau pendant des heures entières.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompacts
- cmopacts
- comapcts
- commpacts
- compaccts
- compacst
- compactss
- compactts
- compatcs
- compcats
- comppacts
- copmacts
- ocmpacts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compacts - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "compacts", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).