compromettre
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,640
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
compromettre is aFrenchverb. It means: Exposer quelqu’un à se trouver dans quelque embarras soit en usant de son nom sans son aveu, soit en l’engageant dans des démêlés, dans des affaires. Pronounced \kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛtʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compromettre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #14,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for compromettre is 12 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,640 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for compromettre, with forms such as "ccompromettre", "cmopromettre", and "commpromettre". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 compromettre, spelled C-O-M-P-R-O-M-E-T-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exposer quelqu’un à se trouver dans quelque embarras soit en usant de son nom sans son aveu, soit en l’engageant dans des démêlés, dans des affaires.
- 2Mettre une réputation en péril.
- 3Donner à penser par ses paroles ou ses actes qu’on a une liaison intime avec elle, en parlant d'une femme.
- 4Mettre en péril.
- 5Acter d'un consentement réciproque ou de se rapporter sur les différends, les procès qu’on a ensemble, au jugement d’un ou de plusieurs arbitres.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccompromettre,cmopromettre,commpromettre,compormettre,comppromettre,comprmoettre,comproemttre,comprometre,comprometrte,comprometter,compromettrre,comprommettre,compromtetre,comprromettre,comrpomettre,copmromettre,ocmpromettre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "compromettre"
Frequency rank: #14,640 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: