comparaison
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,912
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
comparaison is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de comparer, de chercher les ressemblances ou les différences qui peuvent exister entre deux personnes ou deux choses. Pronounced \kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.zɔ̃\. It ranks #2,912 in French word frequency. Often confused with comparaisons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comparaison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #2,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comparaison is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.zɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,912 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for comparaison, with forms such as "ccomparaison", "cmoparaison", and "comapraison". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "comparaisons", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is comparaison, spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-A-I-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de comparer, de chercher les ressemblances ou les différences qui peuvent exister entre deux personnes ou deux choses.
- 2Similitude, se dit de cette figure de style dont les orateurs et les poètes se servent en comparant une chose ou une personne à quelque autre, pour orner le discours ou pour y apporter de la clarté.
- 3Rapprochement rapide que l’on fait de deux objets dissemblables, mais entre lesquels on établit par la pensée une certaine analogie.
- 4Ce qui sert à indiquer un rapport de supériorité, d’égalité ou d’infériorité entre deux ou plusieurs choses, ou entre deux états d’une même chose.
- 5Opération de l’esprit qui consiste à rapprocher deux idées pour découvrir leurs rapports.
- 6Détermination du classement relatif de plusieurs éléments (typiquement des nombres) dans une relation d’ordre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomparaison,cmoparaison,comapraison,commparaison,compaarison,comparaiosn,comparaisno,comparaisonn,comparaisson,comparasion,compariason,comparraison,compparaison,compraaison,copmaraison,ocmparaison
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comparaison
Misspelling Variants of "comparaison"
Frequency rank: #2,912 in French
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