companie

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « companie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for companie
PropertyValue
Headwordcompanie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#84,648
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « companie » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).companietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « comin » (#84,647), « complémentarités » (#84,649), « comice » (#84,646). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « companie » est au #84,648. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Variante de compagnie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how companie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "companie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list