compotes
\kɔ̃.pɔt\
The verdict
“compotes” is uncommon French (frequency #62,879 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,879
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de compote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compotes · compotes · French
compotes · rank #62,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,879
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH composteur
Nearest frequency peer: composteur (-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 « compotes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- comices
comices
37,126 corpus weight
- commenta
commenta
37,125 corpus weight
- comorienne
comorienne
37,124 corpus weight
- composteur
composteur
37,123 corpus weight
- compotes
compotes
37,122 corpus weight
- comprendrons
comprendrons
37,121 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compotes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compotes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compotes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compotes is uncommon French at frequency #62,879 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.pɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de compote.".
compotes has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is compotes, spelled C-O-M-P-O-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de compote.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compotes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a cependant une règle hyper-importante à respecter : ne consommez que des compotes sans sucre ajouté !
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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