compression
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,738
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
compression is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de comprimer ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \kɔ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with compressions and compassion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compression |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #11,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for compression is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,738 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 compression, with forms such as "ccompression", "cmopression", and "commpression". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "compressions", "compassion", 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 compression, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de comprimer ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Oppression.
- 3Réduction des dépenses nécessitée par telle ou telle cause.
- 4Opération consistant à transformer à l’aide d’un algorithme une série de données (fichier ou données en mémoire vive) en une nouvelle série de taille plus réduite, sans perte du contenu original ou alors avec une perte mesurée et contrôlée (pour les fichiers image, vidéo ou audio).
- 5Phénomène d’écrasement du corps qui est ressenti par un sportif lorsqu’il atteint, à vitesse élevée, le point où une pente descendante s’inverse brutalement.
- 6Endroit où se produit un phénomène de compression.
- 7Proximité des arbres entre eux, qui les pousse à former leur bille de pied en grandissant et en s’élaguant naturellement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccompression,cmopression,commpression,comperssion,comppression,compresion,compresison,compressino,compressionn,compressoin,comprression,comprsesion,comrpession,copmression,ocmpression
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for compression
Misspelling Variants of "compression"
Frequency rank: #11,738 in French
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