compétant
\kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“compétant” is uncommon French (frequency #83,729 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,729
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de compéter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-competant · compétant · French
compétant · rank #83,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,729
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compressée
Nearest frequency peer: compressée (-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 « compétant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- compensatri…
compensatrice
16,275 corpus weight
- compléta
compléta
16,274 corpus weight
- compressée
compressée
16,273 corpus weight
- compétant
compétant
16,272 corpus weight
- conard
conard
16,271 corpus weight
- concorder
concorder
16,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compétant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compétant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compétant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compétant is uncommon French at frequency #83,729 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de compéter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for compétant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is compétant, spelled C-O-M-P-É-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de compéter.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).