compte
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#196
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
compte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de compter, dénombrement, calcul opéré sur tel ou tel ensemble de choses ; résultat de cette action. Pronounced \kɔ̃t\. It ranks #196 in French word frequency. Often confused with côte and coupe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for compte is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #196 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for compte, with forms such as "ccompte", "cmopte", and "commpte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "côte", "coupe", "comte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is compte, spelled C-O-M-P-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de compter, dénombrement, calcul opéré sur tel ou tel ensemble de choses ; résultat de cette action.
- 2État de ce qui a été reçu, ce qui est dû, dépensé, avancé ou fourni.
- 3Écrit contenant l’énumération, le calcul, la supputation de cet état.
- 4Écrit contenant l’énumération, le calcul, la supputation de cet état.
- 5Action de rapporter ce qu’on a fait, ce qu’on a vu, etc., et d’en rendre raison, de l’expliquer. Dans ce sens, il s’emploie ordinairement avec les verbes « rendre », « devoir » et « demander ».
- 6Avoir une chose en compte, l’administrer, en disposer, à la charge d’en rendre compte à qui de droit.
- 7Ensemble des ressources informatiques attribuées à un utilisateur, qui ne peut les utiliser qu’en s’identifiant sur le système avec son nom d’utilisateur et son mot de passe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccompte,cmopte,commpte,compet,comppte,comptte,comtpe,copmte,ocmpte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for compte
Misspelling Variants of "compte"
Frequency rank: #196 in French
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