compteur kilométrique
\kɔ̃.tœʁ.ki.lɔ.me.tʁik\
The verdict
“compteur kilométrique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Odomètre servant à indiquer en kilomètres la distance parcourue par un véhicule : son kilométrage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compteur kilométrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tœʁ.ki.lɔ.me.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “compteur kilométrique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for compteur kilométrique is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tœʁ.ki.lɔ.me.tʁik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Odomètre servant à indiquer en kilomètres la distance parcourue par un véhicule : son kilométrage.".
No misspelling variants are generated for compteur kilométrique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 compteur kilométrique, spelled C-O-M-P-T-E-U-R- -K-I-L-O-M-É-T-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Odomètre servant à indiquer en kilomètres la distance parcourue par un véhicule : son kilométrage.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-M-P-T-E-U-R- -K-I-L-O-M-É-T-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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