complaire
\kɔ̃.plɛʁ\
The verdict
“complaire” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,800
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’accommoder au sentiment, au goût de quelqu’un pour lui plaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-complaire · complaire · French
complaire · rank #42,800 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,800
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comparu
Nearest frequency peer: comparu (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « complaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cognition
cognition
57,203 corpus weight
- comparu
comparu
57,202 corpus weight
- complaire
complaire
57,201 corpus weight
- confidente
confidente
57,200 corpus weight
- configuré
configuré
57,199 corpus weight
- confine
confine
57,198 corpus weight
What this shows « complaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | complaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.plɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « complaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around complaire (IPA \kɔ̃.plɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,800 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for complaire, with forms such as "ccomplaire", "cmoplaire", and "comlpaire". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "complice", "compare", "complainte", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is complaire, spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1S’accommoder au sentiment, au goût de quelqu’un pour lui plaire.
- 2Se plaire, se délecter en soi-même, en ses productions, en ses ouvrages, y mettre sa satisfaction, son plaisir. — Note d’usage : En ce sens, il se prend presque toujours en mauvaise part.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how complaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je veux bien vous complaire en cela. — Ce que j’en fais n’est que pour lui complaire.
Non, me dit-il, si pour vous complaire je souscris à la nécessité d'une Guerre, il seroit fâcheux que vous ne souscrivissiez pas, pour avoir votre Guerre, à la nécessité d'une somme à laquelle vous ne sauriez trouver à redire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomplaire
- cmoplaire
- comlpaire
- commplaire
- compalire
- complaier
- complairre
- complarie
- compliare
- compllaire
- compplaire
- copmlaire
- ocmplaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of complaire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "complaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).