compatible
\kɔ̃.pa.tibl\
The verdict
“compatible” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,289
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut exister, s’accorder avec quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compatible · compatible · French
compatible · rank #7,289 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,289
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH claires
Nearest frequency peer: claires (-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 « compatible »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- citations
citations
92,714 corpus weight
- claires
claires
92,713 corpus weight
- compatible
compatible
92,712 corpus weight
- complice
complice
92,711 corpus weight
- complémenta…
complémentaire
92,710 corpus weight
- conducteurs
conducteurs
92,709 corpus weight
What this shows « compatible » 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 | compatible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pa.tibl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « compatible »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around compatible (IPA \kɔ̃.pa.tibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,289 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for compatible, with forms such as "ccompatible", "cmopatible", and "comaptible". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "comptable", "compatibles", "comparable", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 compatible, spelled C-O-M-P-A-T-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut exister, s’accorder avec quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 2Facilement modulable ou connectable sans interface ou manipulation compliquée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how compatible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La France demande que soit soumise au Tribunal de La Haye la question de savoir si le pacte franco-soviétique est compatible avec Locarno.
J'attends qu'elle revienne tandis qu'elle voudrait que je l'oublie. J'attends qu'elle change, alors qu'elle est enfin bien dans sa peau, dit-elle, et elle m'en remercie, mais je ne suis plus compatible avec ce que je l'ai aidée à devenir.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompatible
- cmopatible
- comaptible
- commpatible
- compaitble
- compatbile
- compatibble
- compatibel
- compatiblle
- compatilbe
- compattible
- comppatible
- comptaible
- copmatible
- ocmpatible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compatible - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).