comptant
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“comptant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,483
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui compte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comptant · comptant · French
comptant · rank #6,483 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,483
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comptable
Nearest frequency peer: comptable (-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 « comptant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- complexité
complexité
93,521 corpus weight
- comptable
comptable
93,519 corpus weight
- comptant
comptant
93,518 corpus weight
- concentre
concentre
93,517 corpus weight
- confortable
confortable
93,516 corpus weight
- coordonnées
coordonnées
93,515 corpus weight
What this shows « comptant » 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 | comptant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « comptant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around comptant (IPA \kɔ̃.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,483 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for comptant, with forms such as "ccomptant", "cmoptant", and "commptant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "coupant", "Compton", "coûtant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 comptant, spelled C-O-M-P-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui compte.
- 2Qui se compte sur le champ.
- 3Se dit d’un paiement immédiat quel que soit le moyen de paiement utilisé dès lors que ce moyen de paiement ne prévoit pas de délai.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comptant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bien Bon vous aime, et vous conjure d’être toujours habile, comptante, calculante et supputante.
Il suffit pour cela d’avoir attention que les voix comptantes des enquêtes excèdent de peu celles de la grand’chambre : par exemple, si le Parlement de Paris est composé de cent cinquante membres, la grand’chambre, compris les présidents, sera de soixante. Les enquêtes et requêtes seront de quatre-vingt-dix, sur lesquels il y aura au moins vingt-cinq voix…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomptant
- cmoptant
- commptant
- compatnt
- compptant
- comptannt
- comptantt
- comptatn
- comptnat
- compttant
- comtpant
- copmtant
- ocmptant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comptant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "comptant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).