complaît
\kɔ̃.plɛ\
The verdict
“complaît” is uncommon French (frequency #71,370 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,370
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de complaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-complait · complaît · French
complaît · rank #71,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,370
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH complement
Nearest frequency peer: complement (+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 « complaît »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- communards
communards
28,634 corpus weight
- communiquons
communiquons
28,633 corpus weight
- complaît
complaît
28,631 corpus weight
- complement
complement
28,630 corpus weight
- compulsion
compulsion
28,629 corpus weight
- concitoyen
concitoyen
28,628 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « complaît » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | complaît |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.plɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « complaît » en français
Rare enough to double-check
complaît is uncommon French at frequency #71,370 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.plɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de complaire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for complaît, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is complaît, spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-Î-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de complaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how complaît appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi sa feinte impotence fonctionnelle à se relever, lors de la reconstitution de la découverte du corps : au cabaret, où il lui arrive de débrider sa fantaisie, quand il a quelques chopines, demoiselles, gloria et autres douceurs dans le nez, le bonhomme se complaît à faire étalage de sa souplesse et à la fois de sa résistance à l’alcool, en se plaçant…
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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