comparse
\kɔ̃.paʁs\
The verdict
“comparse” is uncommon French (frequency #55,160 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,160
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figurant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comparse · comparse · French
comparse · rank #55,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,160
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH combative
Nearest frequency peer: combative (-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 « comparse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collectée
collectée
44,844 corpus weight
- collocation
collocation
44,843 corpus weight
- combative
combative
44,842 corpus weight
- comparse
comparse
44,841 corpus weight
- compilées
compilées
44,840 corpus weight
- Conchita
Conchita
44,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comparse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comparse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.paʁs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comparse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comparse is uncommon French at frequency #55,160 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.paʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for comparse in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 comparse, spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Figurant.
- 2Personne qui prend part dans une affaire (souvent illicite, mais pas forcément), dans une société…
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comparse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Et surtout, on a compris le plaisir coupable que donne la transe, pour certaines musiques connotées ultrakitsch, que tout le monde adore », ajoute son comparse.
Il n'était qu'un comparse à appointements fixes.
This word in other languages
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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