comptaient
\kɔ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“comptaient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,093
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de compter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comptaient · comptaient · French
comptaient · rank #20,093 · 15 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,093
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH communiquent
Nearest frequency peer: communiquent (-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 « comptaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cogner
cogner
79,911 corpus weight
- collector
collector
79,910 corpus weight
- communiquent
communiquent
79,909 corpus weight
- comptaient
comptaient
79,908 corpus weight
- concourir
concourir
79,907 corpus weight
- confiés
confiés
79,905 corpus weight
What this shows « comptaient » 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 | comptaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comptaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around comptaient (IPA \kɔ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,093 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de compter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for comptaient, with forms such as "ccomptaient", "cmoptaient", and "commptaient". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "comptait", "comptent", "comptant", 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is comptaient, spelled C-O-M-P-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de compter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how comptaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La longue procession attaqua les étroits lacets qui serpentaient dans le massif. Dès que la pente se fit plus raide, l’épuisement choisit ses premières victimes. Un jeune turco eut une attaque, aussi subite que fatale, deux zouaves dévissèrent dans un ravin, et un troisième fut écrasé sous l’essieu d’une pièce de douze. Les chevilles brisées ne se comptai…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomptaient
- cmoptaient
- commptaient
- compatient
- compptaient
- comptaeint
- comptaiennt
- comptaientt
- comptaietn
- comptainet
- comptiaent
- compttaient
- comtpaient
- copmtaient
- ocmptaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comptaient - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).