compliment
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,846
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
compliment is aFrenchnoun. It means: Paroles louant la qualité d’une chose ou d’une personne. Pronounced \kɔ̃.pli.mɑ̃\. Often confused with compliments and compliquent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compliment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pli.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for compliment is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.pli.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,846 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for compliment, with forms such as "ccompliment", "cmopliment", and "comlpiment". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "compliments", "compliquent", "complimenter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 compliment, spelled C-O-M-P-L-I-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Paroles louant la qualité d’une chose ou d’une personne.
- 2Paroles de civilité, obligeantes, flatteuses, par lesquelles on témoigne à quelqu’un le respect, l’affection, l’estime qu’on a pour lui, ou la part que l’on prend à ce qui lui arrive.
- 3Simple terme de civilité pour se rappeler au souvenir de quelqu’un.
- 4Paroles désobligeantes ou injurieuses.
- 5Opposé de l’intention réelle, des promesses effectives.
- 6Petit discours en vers ou en prose qu’on fait réciter ou présenter par un enfant à son père, à sa mère, ou à une autre personne, le jour de leur fête ou le premier jour de l’an, pour les complimenter.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccompliment,cmopliment,comlpiment,commpliment,compilment,compliemnt,complimennt,complimentt,complimetn,complimment,complimnet,complliment,complmient,comppliment,copmliment,ocmpliment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for compliment
Misspelling Variants of "compliment"
Frequency rank: #10,846 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: