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compte

French, noun

compte is spelled C-O-M-P-T-E (6 letters) and appears 417 times per million words in written French, the 198th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Compte is a French masculine noun meaning “account (bank or user account)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of compter. With an accent, compté is a different word: “past participle of compter”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de compter, dénombrement, calcul opéré sur tel ou tel ensemble de choses ; résultat de cette action”.

What does compte mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineaccount (bank or user account)

  2. 2

    masculinecount (the action of counting)

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as compté
  1. 1

    past participle of compter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action de compter, dénombrement, calcul opéré sur tel ou tel ensemble de choses ; résultat de cette action. 2. État de ce qui a été reçu, ce qui est dû, dépensé, avancé ou fourni. 3. Écrit contenant l’énumération, le calcul, la supputation de cet état. 4. Livret, solde chez un tiers avec lequel s’opèrent des échanges économiques.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of compte

  • comptes plural
  • comptée feminine
  • comptés masculine plural
  • comptées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to compte

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is compte in French?

compte appears 417 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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