comprimer
\kɔ̃.pʁi.me\
The verdict
“comprimer” is uncommon French (frequency #53,864 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,864
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Presser avec force, de manière à réduire à un moindre volume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comprimer · comprimer · French
comprimer · rank #53,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,864
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concordants
Nearest frequency peer: concordants (+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 « comprimer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- colique
colique
46,140 corpus weight
- communiquera
communiquera
46,139 corpus weight
- comprimer
comprimer
46,137 corpus weight
- concordants
concordants
46,136 corpus weight
- concourant
concourant
46,135 corpus weight
- condamna
condamna
46,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comprimer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comprimer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pʁi.me\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comprimer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comprimer is uncommon French at frequency #53,864 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.pʁi.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for comprimer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is comprimer, spelled C-O-M-P-R-I-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Presser avec force, de manière à réduire à un moindre volume.
- 2Compresser, appliquer une compresse.
- 3Condenser.
- 4Empêcher d’agir, d’éclater.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comprimer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les champs occupés par les céréales d’hiver, le durcissement de la surface du sol par suite du hâle de mars comprime le collet des racines et s’oppose au développement des pousses latérales; […].
Comprimer le bras avec un bandage.
Antonyms
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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