companie

noun

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The verdict

“companie” is uncommon French (frequency #84,648 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,648
frequency rank, French
257,141
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de compagnie.

Key facts for companie
PropertyValue
Headwordcompanie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#84,648
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “companie” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). companie lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

companie is uncommon French at frequency #84,648 among 257,141 “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

  1. 1
    Variante de compagnie.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "companie"?
"companie" is spelled C-O-M-P-A-N-I-E.
What does "companie" mean?
As a noun, "companie" means: Variante de compagnie.
What language does "companie" come from?
"companie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “companie”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-P-A-N-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list