compensatrice
\kɔ̃.pɑ̃.sa.tʁis\
The verdict
“compensatrice” is uncommon French (frequency #83,726 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,726
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de compensateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compensatrice · compensatrice · French
compensatrice · rank #83,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,726
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compatit
Nearest frequency peer: compatit (-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 « compensatrice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collaborez
collaborez
16,278 corpus weight
- combattront
combattront
16,277 corpus weight
- compatit
compatit
16,276 corpus weight
- compensatri…
compensatrice
16,275 corpus weight
- compléta
compléta
16,274 corpus weight
- compressée
compressée
16,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compensatrice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compensatrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pɑ̃.sa.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #83,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compensatrice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compensatrice is uncommon French at frequency #83,726 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.pɑ̃.sa.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de compensateur.".
compensatrice has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 compensatrice, spelled C-O-M-P-E-N-S-A-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de compensateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compensatrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À noter que les récidives coronaires, au cours de contention après expansion transversale, nécessitent une hyper-correction coronaire compensatrice ; c’est là une règle générale : il y a toujours intérêt à hyper-corriger tous les mouvements orthodontiques.
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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