complétude

\kɔ̃.ple.tyd\

/\kɔ̃.ple.tyd\/ noun

The verdict

“complétude” is uncommon French (frequency #66,607 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,607
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité d'un espace métrique complet, ou d'un espace vectoriel normé complet.

Corpus desk

Index FR-completude · complétude · French

complétude · rank #66,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,607
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH complaintes

Nearest frequency peer: complaintes (-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 « complétude »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « complétude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for complétude
PropertyValue
Headwordcomplétude
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.ple.tyd\
Letters10
Frequency rank#66,607
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « complétude » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.complétudetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « complaintes » (#66,606), « concrétions » (#66,608), « commodément » (#66,605). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « complétude » est au #66,607. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

complétude is uncommon French at frequency #66,607 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ple.tyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for complétude, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 complétude, spelled C-O-M-P-L-É-T-U-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité d'un espace métrique complet, ou d'un espace vectoriel normé complet.
  2. 2
    Qualité de ce qui est complet, exhaustif.
  3. 3
    Qualité de ce qui est terminé, achevé.
  4. 4
    Qualité d'un objet auquel on ne peut rien ajouter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how complétude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La portée des données du point de vue géographique et ethnique, la qualité des statistiques — c’est-à-dire leur degré de complétude.
  2. Afin d’évaluer le degré de complétude des données sur la mortalité enregistrées dans les pays dotés de registres d’état civil, on a appliqué des techniques […]

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This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "complétude"?
"complétude" is spelled C-O-M-P-L-É-T-U-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.ple.tyd\.
What does "complétude" mean?
As a noun, "complétude" means: Qualité d'un espace métrique complet, ou d'un espace vectoriel normé complet.
How do you pronounce "complétude"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "complétude" is \kɔ̃.ple.tyd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "complétude" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "complétude", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list