comprendre
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#600
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
comprendre is aFrenchverb. It means: Contenir en soi. Pronounced \kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃dʁ\. It ranks #600 in French word frequency. Often confused with comprends and comprenne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comprendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comprendre is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #600 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for comprendre, with forms such as "ccomprendre", "cmoprendre", and "commprendre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "comprends", "comprenne", "comprendrez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is comprendre, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contenir en soi.
- 2Faire entrer dans un ensemble.
- 3Embrasser ou saisir par l’intelligence.
- 4Saisir le sens d’un mot, d’une langue, etc.
- 5Concevoir ou se faire une juste idée de quelque chose.
- 6Bien saisir les explications, les ordres qu’il donne, la langue qu’il parle, etc., en parlant de quelqu’un.
- 7Croire à tort, se méprendre.
- 8Se dit de deux personnes qui ont une grande connaissance l’une de l’autre, avec une nuance de sympathie, d’intimité.
- 9Être compréhensible, imaginable ou concevable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomprendre,cmoprendre,commprendre,comperndre,compprendre,comprednre,comprenddre,comprender,comprendrre,comprenndre,comprenrde,comprnedre,comprrendre,comrpendre,copmrendre,ocmprendre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comprendre
Misspelling Variants of "comprendre"
Frequency rank: #600 in French
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