comprirent
\kɔ̃.pʁiʁ\
The verdict
“comprirent” is uncommon French (frequency #73,846 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,846
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de comprendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comprirent · comprirent · French
comprirent · rank #73,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,846
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comparais
Nearest frequency peer: comparais (-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 « comprirent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commencemen…
commencements
26,158 corpus weight
- commémorent
commémorent
26,157 corpus weight
- comparais
comparais
26,156 corpus weight
- comprirent
comprirent
26,155 corpus weight
- confiseur
confiseur
26,154 corpus weight
- conga
conga
26,153 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comprirent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comprirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comprirent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comprirent is uncommon French at frequency #73,846 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.pʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de comprendre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for comprirent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is comprirent, spelled C-O-M-P-R-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de comprendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how comprirent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pures, fières de leur royauté virginale, de leur couronne d’inconquis, ne comprirent pas que suivre les Regards doublerait au lieu de défleuronner leur diadème ; elles avaient, d’ailleurs, peur des franchises, et marchaient la tête haute d’orgueil, sans voir les bas pièges du Mensonge, lequel les enveloppait de flatteries, d’embûches, et les réduisait…
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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