compost
\kɔ̃.pɔst\
The verdict
“compost” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,598. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,598
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélange de matières organiques que l’on rassemble en silo, en tas ou dans un fût à composter afin qu'elles subissent une décomposition aérobique pour former un humus stable de bonne qualité qui ser...
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Index FR-compost · compost · French
compost · rank #25,598 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,598
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colorant
Nearest frequency peer: colorant (-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 « compost »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- colles
colles
74,405 corpus weight
- colorant
colorant
74,404 corpus weight
- compost
compost
74,403 corpus weight
- congénères
congénères
74,402 corpus weight
- consent
consent
74,401 corpus weight
- conservatis…
conservatisme
74,400 corpus weight
What this shows « compost » 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 | compost |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pɔst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « compost »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around compost (IPA \kɔ̃.pɔst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,598 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for compost, with forms such as "ccompost", "cmopost", and "commpost". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "comprit", "compote", "compo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 compost, spelled C-O-M-P-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1Mélange de matières organiques que l’on rassemble en silo, en tas ou dans un fût à composter afin qu'elles subissent une décomposition aérobique pour former un humus stable de bonne qualité qui servira ensuite comme amendement ou couverture de sol.
- 2Entassement hétéroclite et pourrissant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how compost appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une ferme bien tenue, le cultivateur ne doit laisser rien perdre des résidus de toute sorte d'origine animale ou végétale : il doit même chercher à se procurer dans les environs le plus de substances fertilisantes possibles à bon marché pour en faire des composts, […].
La production de compost à partir des restes de marchés pourrait être mieux exploitée dans certaines villes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompost
- cmopost
- commpost
- comopst
- composst
- compostt
- compots
- comppost
- compsot
- copmost
- ocmpost
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compost - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).