compressée
\kɔ̃.pʁɛ.se\
The verdict
“compressée” is uncommon French (frequency #83,728 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,728
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de compressé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compressee · compressée · French
compressée · rank #83,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,728
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compléta
Nearest frequency peer: compléta (-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 « compressée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- compatit
compatit
16,276 corpus weight
- compensatri…
compensatrice
16,275 corpus weight
- compléta
compléta
16,274 corpus weight
- compressée
compressée
16,273 corpus weight
- compétant
compétant
16,272 corpus weight
- conard
conard
16,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compressée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compressée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pʁɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compressée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compressée is uncommon French at frequency #83,728 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.pʁɛ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de compressé.".
compressée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is compressée, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de compressé.
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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