comparable
\kɔ̃.pa.ʁabl\
The verdict
“comparable” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,691
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être comparé avec quelqu’un ou avec quelque chose pour leur ressemblance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comparable · comparable · French
comparable · rank #6,691 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,691
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cloche
Nearest frequency peer: cloche (-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 « comparable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charmant
charmant
93,313 corpus weight
- Chili
Chili
93,312 corpus weight
- cloche
cloche
93,311 corpus weight
- comparable
comparable
93,310 corpus weight
- conjoint
conjoint
93,309 corpus weight
- contenter
contenter
93,308 corpus weight
What this shows « comparable » 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 | comparable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pa.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comparable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around comparable (IPA \kɔ̃.pa.ʁabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,691 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for comparable, with forms such as "ccomparable", "cmoparable", and "comaprable". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "comptable", "compatible", "comparables", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is comparable, spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être comparé avec quelqu’un ou avec quelque chose pour leur ressemblance.
- 2Entre lesquels existe une relation d’ordre.
- 3Dont on peut former le comparatif de supériorité et le superlatif de supériorité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comparable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rupture des glaces s’opérait avec un fracas extraordinaire, comparable parfois à des décharges d’artillerie.
J'ai vu, dans ma longue carrière d'ingénieur acousticien, bien des matières excellentes conductrices du son, mais jamais je n'en rencontrerai une seule comparable, même de loin, à celle dont sont pétris les murs de l'hôtel Terminus à Marseille.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomparable
- cmoparable
- comaprable
- commparable
- compaarble
- comparabble
- comparabel
- comparablle
- comparalbe
- comparbale
- comparrable
- compparable
- compraable
- copmarable
- ocmparable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comparable - 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.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).