competent
\ˈkɑːm.pə.tənt\
The verdict
“competent” is uncommon French (frequency #98,900 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,900
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compétent, qualifié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-competent · competent · French
competent · rank #98,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,900
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concertent
Nearest frequency peer: concertent (+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 « competent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- colloïdal
colloïdal
1,105 corpus weight
- colombage
colombage
1,104 corpus weight
- competent
competent
1,101 corpus weight
- concertent
concertent
1,100 corpus weight
- conditionna…
conditionnalité
1,099 corpus weight
- confs
confs
1,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « competent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | competent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkɑːm.pə.tənt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « competent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
competent is uncommon French at frequency #98,900 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈkɑːm.pə.tənt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for competent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 competent, spelled C-O-M-P-E-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Compétent, qualifié.
- 2Apte à, capable.
Antonyms
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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