component
\kəmˈpoʊ.nənt\
The verdict
“component” is uncommon French (frequency #93,621 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,621
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-component · component · French
component · rank #93,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,621
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compensait
Nearest frequency peer: compensait (-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 « component »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commettons
commettons
6,384 corpus weight
- compensait
compensait
6,381 corpus weight
- component
component
6,380 corpus weight
- concluaient
concluaient
6,379 corpus weight
- Condrieu
Condrieu
6,378 corpus weight
- conduisons
conduisons
6,377 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « component » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | component |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kəmˈpoʊ.nənt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « component » en français
Rare enough to double-check
component is uncommon French at frequency #93,621 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kəmˈpoʊ.nənt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
component has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is component, spelled C-O-M-P-O-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Composant.
- 2Contingent, part, partie, portion.
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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