companie
The verdict
“companie” is uncommon French (frequency #84,648 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,648
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de compagnie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-companie · companie · French
companie · rank #84,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,648
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comin
Nearest frequency peer: comin (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « companie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- colonisées
colonisées
15,356 corpus weight
- comice
comice
15,355 corpus weight
- comin
comin
15,354 corpus weight
- companie
companie
15,353 corpus weight
- complémenta…
complémentarités
15,352 corpus weight
- comprenions
comprenions
15,350 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « companie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | companie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « companie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
companie is uncommon French at frequency #84,648 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de compagnie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for companie, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is companie, spelled C-O-M-P-A-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de compagnie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how companie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne pur sa companie encontrer
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).