comprimé

\kɔ̃.pʁi.me\

/\kɔ̃.pʁi.me\/ noun

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The verdict

“comprimé” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,594
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préparation pharmaceutique dans laquelle on compresse fortement un produit actif avec un liant pour le rendre facilement consommable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-comprime · comprimé · French

comprimé · rank #15,594 · 13 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,594
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH complaisance

Nearest frequency peer: complaisance (-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 « comprimé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « comprimé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

comprimé vs compris
75% similar
comprimé vs comprit
75% similar
comprimé vs comprise
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for comprimé
PropertyValue
Headwordcomprimé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.pʁi.me\
Letters8
Frequency rank#15,594
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comprimé »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).comprimése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « complaisance » (#15,593), « compteurs » (#15,595), « compacte » (#15,592). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « comprimé » est au #15,594. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around comprimé (IPA \kɔ̃.pʁi.me\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,594 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for comprimé, with forms such as "ccomprimé", "cmoprimé", and "commprimé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "compris", "comprit", "comprise", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is comprimé, spelled C-O-M-P-R-I-M-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Préparation pharmaceutique dans laquelle on compresse fortement un produit actif avec un liant pour le rendre facilement consommable.
  2. 2
    Comprimé dispersible : comprimé qui une fois mis dans l’eau met un principe actif non hydrosoluble en suspension.
  3. 3
    Comprimé dragéifié : comprimé recouvert d'une couche de sucre, colorée ou non, qui a pour but d'éviter le contact de la substance active avec l'extérieur ainsi qu'avec la langue en cas de mauvais goût de la substance active.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how comprimé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il a ce qu’il faut comme médicament mais se trouve confronté à l’absurdité du dosage et du formatage du comprimé.
  2. Un comprimé orodispersible se place sur la langue et le principe actif est absorbé au niveau de la muqueuse gastro-intestinale. Il se dissout dans la bouche.

This word in other languages

tablet(English)comprimido(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccomprimé
  • cmoprimé
  • commprimé
  • compirmé
  • compprimé
  • comprime
  • comprimmé
  • compriém
  • comprmié
  • comprrimé
  • comrpimé
  • copmrimé
  • ocmprimé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comprimé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccomprimé1cmoprimé2commprimé1compirmé2compprimé1comprime1comprimmé1compriém2
Edit distance from "comprimé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comprimé"?
"comprimé" is spelled C-O-M-P-R-I-M-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.pʁi.me\.
What does "comprimé" mean?
As a noun, "comprimé" means: Préparation pharmaceutique dans laquelle on compresse fortement un produit actif avec un liant pour le rendre facilement consommable.
What words are commonly confused with "comprimé"?
"comprimé" is commonly confused with "compris", "comprit", "comprise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comprimé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comprimé" is \kɔ̃.pʁi.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comprimé" come from?
"comprimé" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "comprimé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

compacte#15,592contenue#15,598cascades#15,586coopérer#15,602

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

brancher13 variantsbouddhisme13 variantsaquatiques13 variantsévocation13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list