compares
\kɔ̃.paʁ\
The verdict
“compares” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,939. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,939
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comparer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compares · compares · French
compares · rank #44,939 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,939
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coloriage
Nearest frequency peer: coloriage (-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 « compares »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cocotier
cocotier
55,065 corpus weight
- collagène
collagène
55,064 corpus weight
- coloriage
coloriage
55,063 corpus weight
- compares
compares
55,062 corpus weight
- complex
complex
55,061 corpus weight
- concocter
concocter
55,059 corpus weight
What this shows « compares » 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 | compares |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.paʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « compares »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around compares (IPA \kɔ̃.paʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,939 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for compares, with forms such as "ccompares", "cmopares", and "comapres". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "compris", "comptes", "compère", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is compares, spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comparer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de comparer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompares
- cmopares
- comapres
- commpares
- compaers
- comparres
- comparse
- comppares
- compraes
- copmares
- ocmpares
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compares - 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 "compares", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).