compare
\kɔ̃.paʁ\
The verdict
“compare” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,175
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comparer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compare · compare · French
compare · rank #6,175 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,175
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commerçants
Nearest frequency peer: commerçants (-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 « compare »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coco
coco
93,829 corpus weight
- comique
comique
93,828 corpus weight
- commerçants
commerçants
93,827 corpus weight
- compare
compare
93,826 corpus weight
- considèrent
considèrent
93,824 corpus weight
- couler
couler
93,823 corpus weight
What this shows « compare » 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 | compare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.paʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « compare »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around compare (IPA \kɔ̃.paʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,175 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for compare, with forms such as "ccompare", "cmopare", and "comapre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "compte", "composé", "coupure", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is compare, spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comparer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comparer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de comparer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de comparer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de comparer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’artiste compare cette formation à celle que vivrait un footballeur international au centre de Clairefontaine.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompare
- cmopare
- comapre
- commpare
- compaer
- comppare
- comprae
- copmare
- ocmpare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compare - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "compare", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).