comportait
\kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\
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
- Clio
Clio
82,905 corpus weight
- color
color
82,904 corpus weight
- comportait
comportait
82,903 corpus weight
- compétentes
compétentes
82,902 corpus weight
- confondent
confondent
82,901 corpus weight
- contraignant
contraignant
82,900 corpus weight
What this shows « comportait » 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 | comportait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comportait »
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
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de comporter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comportait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa taille, qui dépassait à peine quatre pieds, était si mince que sa ceinture comportait à peine une demi-aune.
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.
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
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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).