comptabilité

/\kɔ̃.ta.bi.li.te\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,362

in French word usage

Misspellings

19

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

comptabilité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tenue des comptes, la manière, l’action de rendre et d’établir des comptes. Pronounced \kɔ̃.ta.bi.li.te\. It ranks #8,362 in French word frequency. Often confused with comptabilise and compatibilité.

Key facts for comptabilité
PropertyValue
Headwordcomptabilité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.ta.bi.li.te\
Letters12
Frequency rank#8,362
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of comptabilité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for comptabilité is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.ta.bi.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,362 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tenue des comptes, la manière, l’action de rendre et d’établir des comptes.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for comptabilité, with forms such as "ccomptabilité", "cmoptabilité", and "commptabilité". 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 also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "comptabilise", "compatibilité", "comptabilisés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 comptabilité, spelled C-O-M-P-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tenue des comptes, la manière, l’action de rendre et d’établir des comptes.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccomptabilité,cmoptabilité,commptabilité,compatbilité,compptabilité,comptabbilité,comptabiilté,comptabilite,comptabilitté,comptabiliét,comptabillité,comptabiltié,comptabliité,comptaiblité,comptbailité,compttabilité,comtpabilité,copmtabilité,ocmptabilité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comptabilité

Misspelling Variants of "comptabilité"

ccomptabilité13cmoptabilité12commptabilité13compatbilité12compptabilité13comptabbilité13comptabiilté12comptabilite12
Misspelling Variants of "comptabilité"

Frequency rank: #8,362 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comptabilité"?
"comptabilité" is spelled C-O-M-P-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.ta.bi.li.te\.
What does "comptabilité" mean?
As a noun, "comptabilité" means: Tenue des comptes, la manière, l’action de rendre et d’établir des comptes.
What words are commonly confused with "comptabilité"?
"comptabilité" is commonly confused with "comptabilise", "compatibilité", "comptabilisés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "comptabilité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "comptabilité" is \kɔ̃.ta.bi.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "comptabilité" come from?
"comptabilité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.