comportait

\kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\

/\kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“comportait” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,098. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,098
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de comporter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-comportait · comportait · French

comportait · rank #17,098 · 15 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,098
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH color

Nearest frequency peer: color (-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 « comportait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « comportait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

comportait vs comptait
80% similar
comportait vs composait
80% similar
comportait vs comportent
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for comportait
PropertyValue
Headwordcomportait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#17,098
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comportait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).comportaitse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « color » (#17,097), « compétentes » (#17,099), « Clio » (#17,096). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « comportait » est au #17,098. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around comportait (IPA \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,098 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de comporter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for comportait, with forms such as "ccomportait", "cmoportait", and "commportait". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "comptait", "composait", "comportent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is comportait, spelled C-O-M-P-O-R-T-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de comporter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Sa taille, qui dépassait à peine quatre pieds, était si mince que sa ceinture comportait à peine une demi-aune.
  2. J’avais pensé que, plongée dans sa vie professionnelle, Wendy se déguiserait en jeune femme active comme on en voit dans les pubs à la télé mais, contre cette attente, elle ne se comportait pas autrement que sûrement n’importe où, protégeant son incorrigible romantisme et son cœur de midinette par un zeste de pseudo-froideur et quelques saillies piquées d…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccomportait
  • cmoportait
  • commportait
  • comoprtait
  • comporatit
  • comporrtait
  • comportaitt
  • comportati
  • comportiat
  • comporttait
  • compotrait
  • compportait
  • comprotait
  • copmortait
  • ocmportait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comportait - 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.

ccomportait1cmoportait2commportait1comoprtait2comporatit2comporrtait1comportaitt1comportati2
Edit distance from "comportait"

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 "comportait"?
"comportait" is spelled C-O-M-P-O-R-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\.
What does "comportait" mean?
As a verb, "comportait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de comporter.
What words are commonly confused with "comportait"?
"comportait" is commonly confused with "comptait", "composait", "comportent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comportait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comportait" is \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comportait" come from?
"comportait" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list