company

\ˈkʌm.pə.ni\

/\ˈkʌm.pə.ni\/ noun

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The verdict

“company” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,735. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,735
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Société (4: commerciale, industrielle, financière), firme, entreprise.

Corpus desk

Index FR-company · company · French

company · rank #11,735 · 11 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,735
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cola

Nearest frequency peer: cola (-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 « company »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « company » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

company vs compare
71% similar
company vs coupant
71% similar
company vs comparu
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for company
PropertyValue
Headwordcompany
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈkʌm.pə.ni\
Letters7
Frequency rank#11,735
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « company »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.companyse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cola » (#11,734), « comparables » (#11,736), « coffret » (#11,733). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « company » est au #11,735. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around company (IPA \ˈkʌm.pə.ni\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,735 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for company, with forms such as "ccompany", "cmopany", and "comapny". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "compare", "coupant", "comparu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is company, spelled C-O-M-P-A-N-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Société (4: commerciale, industrielle, financière), firme, entreprise.
  2. 2
    Compagnie (1,2,3,5,6).
  3. 3
    Entourage

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. The company made a large profit last year.
  2. While the popularity of cheques as a payment method has diminished in recent years, some companies still issue them to pay employees or vendors.

Synonyms

corporationcompanyenterprisefirm

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccompany
  • cmopany
  • comapny
  • commpany
  • companny
  • companyy
  • compayn
  • compnay
  • comppany
  • copmany
  • ocmpany

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of company - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccompany1cmopany2comapny2commpany1companny1companyy1compayn2compnay2
Edit distance from "company"

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 "company"?
"company" is spelled C-O-M-P-A-N-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈkʌm.pə.ni\.
What does "company" mean?
As a noun, "company" means: Société (4: commerciale, industrielle, financière), firme, entreprise.
What words are commonly confused with "company"?
"company" is commonly confused with "compare", "coupant", "comparu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "company"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "company" is \ˈkʌm.pə.ni\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "company" come from?
"company" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

coffret#11,733cochons#11,732cartier#11,729buisson#11,726

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

croyons11 variantsbaskets11 variantsannonçait11 variantsexploite11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list