compendium

\kɔ̃.pɛ̃.djɔm\

/\kɔ̃.pɛ̃.djɔm\/ noun

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The verdict

“compendium” is uncommon French (frequency #60,658 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,658
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abrégé d’une science, d’un domaine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-compendium · compendium · French

compendium · rank #60,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,658
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH communautaris…

Nearest frequency peer: communautaristes (-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 « compendium »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compendium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for compendium
PropertyValue
Headwordcompendium
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.pɛ̃.djɔm\
Letters10
Frequency rank#60,658
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « compendium » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).compendiumtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « communautaristes » (#60,657), « compensant » (#60,659), « commandera » (#60,656). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « compendium » est au #60,658. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

compendium is uncommon French at frequency #60,658 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.pɛ̃.djɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for compendium, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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 compendium, spelled C-O-M-P-E-N-D-I-U-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Abrégé d’une science, d’un domaine.
  2. 2
    Petit meuble vitré des salles de classe faisant partie du matériel pédagogique et dans lequel étaient exposés les mesures de poids, de volume, etc.
  3. 3
    Pare-soleil télescopique permettant d’adapter sa longueur à la focale de l’objectif utilisé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how compendium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Car la médecine étant un compendium des erreurs successives et contradictoires des médecins, en appelant à soi les meilleurs d’entre eux on a grande chance d’implorer une vérité qui sera reconnue fausse quelques années plus tard. De sorte que croire à la médecine serait la suprême folie, si n’y pas croire n’en était pas une plus grande, car de cet amoncel…
  2. Ayant produit leurs massifs compendiums juridiques, selon leur interprétation du Coran, de la sunna (vie, comportement) et des hadiths (dits) du Prophète, ils formulèrent la proposition suivant laquelle l’obéissance au souverain, bon ou mauvais, était préférable à la fitna (anarchie, désordre).

This word in other languages

compendium(English)compendio(Español)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "compendium"?
"compendium" is spelled C-O-M-P-E-N-D-I-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.pɛ̃.djɔm\.
What does "compendium" mean?
As a noun, "compendium" means: Abrégé d’une science, d’un domaine.
How do you pronounce "compendium"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "compendium" is \kɔ̃.pɛ̃.djɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "compendium", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

compensant#60,659commandera#60,656colorectal#60,654colombages#60,652

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list