comptait
\kɔ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“comptait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,114. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,114
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de compter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comptait · comptait · French
comptait · rank #5,114 · 12 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,114
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cimetière
Nearest frequency peer: cimetière (-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 « comptait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cameroun
Cameroun
94,891 corpus weight
- canapé
canapé
94,890 corpus weight
- chiant
chiant
94,889 corpus weight
- cimetière
cimetière
94,888 corpus weight
- comptait
comptait
94,887 corpus weight
- connaitre
connaitre
94,886 corpus weight
What this shows « comptait » 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 | comptait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comptait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around comptait (IPA \kɔ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,114 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de compter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for comptait, with forms such as "ccomptait", "cmoptait", and "commptait". 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, "coûtait", "coupait", "comptent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is comptait, spelled C-O-M-P-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de compter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how comptait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est avec émotion que la chanteuse, qui a notamment accompagné l’idole des jeunes pendant les années yé-yé et comptait, avec lui, parmi les têtes d’affiche de la revue Salut les copains, réinterprète des titres aussi célèbres que La musique que j’aime’' (1973), Gabrielle (1976), Quelque chose de Tennessee (1985), ou encore Sans pour sang (1999), vendu à…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomptait
- cmoptait
- commptait
- compatit
- compptait
- comptaitt
- comptati
- comptiat
- compttait
- comtpait
- copmtait
- ocmptait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comptait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).