compter sur

/\kɔ̃.te syʁ\/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

compter sur is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire fond sur quelque chose ou sur quelqu’un, comme sur un homme ou une chose dont on est assuré. Pronounced \kɔ̃.te syʁ\.

Key facts for compter sur
PropertyValue
Headwordcompter sur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.te syʁ\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

compter sur is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for compter sur is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.te syʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for compter sur in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 compter sur, spelled C-O-M-P-T-E-R- -S-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire fond sur quelque chose ou sur quelqu’un, comme sur un homme ou une chose dont on est assuré.
  2. 2
    Faire confiance à une personne, à une chose, à un événement.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "compter sur"?
"compter sur" is spelled C-O-M-P-T-E-R- -S-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.te syʁ\.
What does "compter sur" mean?
As a verb, "compter sur" means: Faire fond sur quelque chose ou sur quelqu’un, comme sur un homme ou une chose dont on est assuré.
How do you pronounce "compter sur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "compter sur" is \kɔ̃.te syʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "compter sur" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.