compliments
\kɔ̃.pli.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“compliments” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,536. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,536
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de compliment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compliments · compliments · French
compliments · rank #12,536 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,536
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conformer
Nearest frequency peer: conformer (+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 « compliments »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- class
class
87,468 corpus weight
- coefficient
coefficient
87,467 corpus weight
- compliments
compliments
87,465 corpus weight
- conformer
conformer
87,464 corpus weight
- conservent
conservent
87,463 corpus weight
- consigne
consigne
87,462 corpus weight
What this shows « compliments » 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 | compliments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pli.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « compliments »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around compliments (IPA \kɔ̃.pli.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,536 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de compliment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for compliments, with forms such as "ccompliments", "cmopliments", and "comlpiments". 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, "compliment", "compléments", "complimenter", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 compliments, spelled C-O-M-P-L-I-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de compliment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compliments appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et tout ce monde, en entrant chez moi, se confond en politesses réciproques : et je te salue — et tu me salues, — et je te ressalue, et tu me le rends — et je te ressalue encore, et je ne te le rendrai jamais selon ton mérite, — et moi je me cogne le front par terre, et toi tu piques du nez sur le plancher; les voilà toutes à quatre pattes les unes devant…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompliments
- cmopliments
- comlpiments
- commpliments
- compilments
- compliemnts
- complimennts
- complimenst
- complimentss
- complimentts
- complimetns
- complimments
- complimnets
- complliments
- complmients
- comppliments
- copmliments
- ocmpliments
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compliments - 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 "compliments", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).