comparaitre
\kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛtʁ\
The verdict
“comparaitre” is uncommon French (frequency #85,581 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,581
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paraitre devant un juge, un officier de l’état civil ou un officier ministériel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comparaitre · comparaitre · French
comparaitre · rank #85,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,581
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH COBOL
Nearest frequency peer: COBOL (-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 « comparaitre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cleaner
cleaner
14,424 corpus weight
- coache
coache
14,422 corpus weight
- COBOL
COBOL
14,421 corpus weight
- comparaitre
comparaitre
14,420 corpus weight
- comporteront
comporteront
14,419 corpus weight
- confidentie…
confidentiellement
14,418 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comparaitre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comparaitre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comparaitre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comparaitre is uncommon French at frequency #85,581 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paraitre devant un juge, un officier de l’état civil ou un officier ministériel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for comparaitre, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is comparaitre, spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-A-I-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Paraitre devant un juge, un officier de l’état civil ou un officier ministériel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comparaitre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comparaitre devant le tribunal de Dieu.
Comparaitre en jugement, en justice.
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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