compagnon
\kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“compagnon” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,924
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre aux compagnons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compagnon · compagnon · French
compagnon · rank #4,924 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,924
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commander
Nearest frequency peer: commander (-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 « compagnon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chérie
chérie
95,080 corpus weight
- cirque
cirque
95,079 corpus weight
- commander
commander
95,078 corpus weight
- compagnon
compagnon
95,077 corpus weight
- comportemen…
comportements
95,076 corpus weight
- comprenant
comprenant
95,075 corpus weight
What this shows « compagnon » 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 | compagnon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « compagnon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around compagnon (IPA \kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,924 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est propre aux compagnons.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for compagnon, with forms such as "ccompagnon", "cmopagnon", and "comapgnon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "compagnons", "compagne", "compagnie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is compagnon, spelled C-O-M-P-A-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre aux compagnons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compagnon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Historiquement, Vallès a bien projeté dans L’Enfant une société compagnonne de petite ville avant 1848 et même avant 1840 ; bientôt, à partir de 1848, on voit des réunions de Compagnons de tous les devoirs, certains Compagnonnages vont animer des grèves […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompagnon
- cmopagnon
- comapgnon
- commpagnon
- compaggnon
- compagnno
- compagnnon
- compagnonn
- compagonn
- compangon
- compganon
- comppagnon
- copmagnon
- ocmpagnon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compagnon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).