comprends

/\kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃\/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#894

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

comprends is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comprendre. Pronounced \kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃\. It ranks #894 in French word frequency. Often confused with comprenez and comprenne.

Key facts for comprends
PropertyValue
Headwordcomprends
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#894
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of comprends in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for comprends is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #894 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for comprends, with forms such as "ccomprends", "cmoprends", and "commprends". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "comprenez", "comprenne", "comprenons", 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 comprends, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-N-D-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comprendre.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comprendre.
  3. 3
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de comprendre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccomprends,cmoprends,commprends,compernds,compprends,compredns,comprendds,comprendss,comprennds,comprensd,comprneds,comprrends,comrpends,copmrends,ocmprends

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comprends

Misspelling Variants of "comprends"

ccomprends10cmoprends9commprends10compernds9compprends10compredns9comprendds10comprendss10
Misspelling Variants of "comprends"

Frequency rank: #894 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comprends"?
"comprends" is spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-N-D-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃\.
What does "comprends" mean?
As a verb, "comprends" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de comprendre.
What words are commonly confused with "comprends"?
"comprends" is commonly confused with "comprenez", "comprenne", "comprenons". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comprends"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comprends" is \kɔ̃.pʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comprends" come from?
"comprends" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.