complement

/\ˈkɒm.plə.ˌmɛnt\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#71,371

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

complement is aFrenchverb. It means: Compléter, remplir, faire un complément. Pronounced \ˈkɒm.plə.ˌmɛnt\.

Key facts for complement
PropertyValue
Headwordcomplement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈkɒm.plə.ˌmɛnt\
Letters10
Frequency rank#71,371
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of complement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for complement is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkɒm.plə.ˌmɛnt\. Corpus data places it at rank #71,371 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Compléter, remplir, faire un complément.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for complement in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 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 complement, spelled C-O-M-P-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Compléter, remplir, faire un complément.

Frequency rank: #71,371 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "complement"?
"complement" is spelled C-O-M-P-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈkɒm.plə.ˌmɛnt\.
What does "complement" mean?
As a verb, "complement" means: Compléter, remplir, faire un complément.
How do you pronounce "complement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "complement" is \ˈkɒm.plə.ˌmɛnt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "complement" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.