compresse
\kɔ̃.pʁɛs\
The verdict
“compresse” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,381. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,381
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau de linge simple, ou plié en plusieurs doubles, qu’on applique sur un pansement pour le maintenir ou directement sur une partie blessée ou malade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compresse · compresse · French
compresse · rank #44,381 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,381
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concernera
Nearest frequency peer: concernera (+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 « compresse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- codéine
codéine
55,624 corpus weight
- combattait
combattait
55,622 corpus weight
- compresse
compresse
55,620 corpus weight
- concernera
concernera
55,619 corpus weight
- concomitante
concomitante
55,618 corpus weight
- concédant
concédant
55,616 corpus weight
What this shows « compresse » 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 | compresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « compresse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around compresse (IPA \kɔ̃.pʁɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,381 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Morceau de linge simple, ou plié en plusieurs doubles, qu’on applique sur un pansement pour le maintenir ou directement sur une partie blessée ou malade.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for compresse, with forms such as "ccompresse", "cmopresse", and "commpresse". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "comprise", "comtesse", "compresseur", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is compresse, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Morceau de linge simple, ou plié en plusieurs doubles, qu’on applique sur un pansement pour le maintenir ou directement sur une partie blessée ou malade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compresse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle déchira un des voiles de son sein, dont elle fit une première compresse, qu’elle attacha avec une boucle de ses cheveux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompresse
- cmopresse
- commpresse
- compersse
- comppresse
- comprese
- compreses
- comprresse
- comprsese
- comrpesse
- copmresse
- ocmpresse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compresse - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "compresse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).