comptage
\kɔ̃.taʒ\
The verdict
“comptage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,145. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,145
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dénombrement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comptage · comptage · French
comptage · rank #23,145 · 12 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,145
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Conakry
Nearest frequency peer: Conakry (+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 « comptage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- commotion
commotion
76,859 corpus weight
- Comores
Comores
76,858 corpus weight
- comptage
comptage
76,856 corpus weight
- Conakry
Conakry
76,855 corpus weight
- concurrentes
concurrentes
76,854 corpus weight
- confidentie…
confidentielle
76,853 corpus weight
What this shows « comptage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comptage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comptage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around comptage (IPA \kɔ̃.taʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,145 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dénombrement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for comptage, with forms such as "ccomptage", "cmoptage", and "commptage". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "compte", "cottage", "comptait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is comptage, spelled C-O-M-P-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Dénombrement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comptage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le comptage des votes lors des prises de décision.
Avant même d’essayer d’introduire des oiseaux issus d’élevage dans la nature, il convient de procéder à un comptage des populations sauvages.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomptage
- cmoptage
- commptage
- compatge
- compptage
- comptaeg
- comptagge
- comptgae
- compttage
- comtpage
- copmtage
- ocmptage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comptage - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).