compresser
\kɔ̃.pʁe.se\
The verdict
“compresser” is uncommon French (frequency #58,512 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,512
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comprimer, exercer une pression continue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-compresser · compresser · French
compresser · rank #58,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,512
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compacité
Nearest frequency peer: compacité (-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 « compresser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commette
commette
41,491 corpus weight
- compacité
compacité
41,490 corpus weight
- compresser
compresser
41,489 corpus weight
- conceptuell…
conceptuelles
41,488 corpus weight
- concierges
concierges
41,487 corpus weight
- condiment
condiment
41,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « compresser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compresser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pʁe.se\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « compresser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
compresser is uncommon French at frequency #58,512 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.pʁe.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for compresser in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is compresser, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Comprimer, exercer une pression continue.
- 2Diminuer la taille d’un ou de plusieurs fichiers au moyen d’un algorithme permettant leur restitution à l’identique, en vue de les stocker ou de les transférer.
This word in other languages
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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