comprise

\kɔ̃.pʁiz\

/\kɔ̃.pʁiz\/ adj

The verdict

“comprise” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,938. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,938
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de compris.

Corpus desk

Index FR-comprise · comprise · French

comprise · rank #6,938 · 12 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,938
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH complémentair…

Nearest frequency peer: complémentaires (-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 « comprise »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « comprise » 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).

comprise vs comprit
75% similar
comprise vs comptine
75% similar
comprise vs comprises
89% similar

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

Key facts for comprise
PropertyValue
Headwordcomprise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ̃.pʁiz\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,938
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comprise »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « complémentaires » (#6,937), « complicité » (#6,936), « concrètement » (#6,940). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « comprise » est au #6,938. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around comprise (IPA \kɔ̃.pʁiz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,938 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de compris.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for comprise, with forms such as "ccomprise", "cmoprise", and "commprise". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "comprit", "comptine", "comprises", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 comprise, spelled C-O-M-P-R-I-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de compris.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Si une seconde citation est comprise à l’intérieur de la première, chaque ligne de la citation incluse sera précédée d’un guillemet ouvrant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccomprise
  • cmoprise
  • commprise
  • compirse
  • compprise
  • compries
  • comprisse
  • comprrise
  • comprsie
  • comrpise
  • copmrise
  • ocmprise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comprise - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccomprise1cmoprise2commprise1compirse2compprise1compries2comprisse1comprrise1
Edit distance from "comprise"

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 "comprise"?
"comprise" is spelled C-O-M-P-R-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.pʁiz\.
What does "comprise" mean?
As an adjective, "comprise" means: Féminin singulier de compris.
What words are commonly confused with "comprise"?
"comprise" is commonly confused with "comprit", "comptine", "comprises". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comprise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comprise" is \kɔ̃.pʁiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comprise" come from?
"comprise" 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 "comprise", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list