compétence
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,057
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
compétence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fonction attribuée par la loi à une autorité publique, à un établissement public. Pronounced \kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃s\. It ranks #4,057 in French word frequency. Often confused with compétents and compétente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compétence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for compétence is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.pe.tɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,057 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for compétence, with forms such as "ccompétence", "cmopétence", and "commpétence". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "compétents", "compétente", "compétences", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is compétence, spelled C-O-M-P-É-T-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fonction attribuée par la loi à une autorité publique, à un établissement public.
- 2Le droit qu’un tribunal, qu’un juge a de connaître de telle ou telle matière, de telle ou telle cause.
- 3Aptitude d’une personne à travailler dans un domaine.
- 4Aptitude d’une personne à juger d’un ouvrage ou à parler de façon pertinente d'un sujet.
- 5Aptitude d’une personne à résoudre un problème complexe.
- 6Grandeur, en général sous la forme d’une valeur chiffrée, et définissant la capacité d’un personnage à gérer certaines situations.
- 7Propriété d’une roche de se briser sous l’effet des contraintes tectoniques. → voir compétent
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccompétence,cmopétence,commpétence,competence,comppétence,comptéence,compéetnce,compétecne,compétencce,compétenec,compétennce,compétnece,compéttence,coméptence,copmétence,ocmpétence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for compétence
Misspelling Variants of "compétence"
Frequency rank: #4,057 in French
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Nearby French words
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