comparais
\kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“comparais” is uncommon French (frequency #73,845 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,845
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comparaître (ou comparaitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-comparais · comparais · French
comparais · rank #73,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,845
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commémorent
Nearest frequency peer: commémorent (-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 « comparais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commencemen…
commencements
26,158 corpus weight
- commémorent
commémorent
26,157 corpus weight
- comparais
comparais
26,156 corpus weight
- comprirent
comprirent
26,155 corpus weight
- confiseur
confiseur
26,154 corpus weight
- conga
conga
26,153 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comparais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comparais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comparais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comparais is uncommon French at frequency #73,845 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for comparais, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is comparais, spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comparaître (ou comparaitre).
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comparaître (ou comparaitre).
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de comparaître (ou comparaitre).
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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