comptoir
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,219
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
comptoir is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de bureau ou de table longue et étroite sur laquelle le marchand comptait autrefois l’argent et où, maintenant, le vendeur étale la marchandise. Pronounced \kɔ̃.twaʁ\. It ranks #8,219 in French word frequency. Often confused with Compton and Comtois.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comptoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comptoir is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.twaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,219 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for comptoir, with forms such as "ccomptoir", "cmoptoir", and "commptoir". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Compton", "Comtois", "comptons", 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 comptoir, spelled C-O-M-P-T-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de bureau ou de table longue et étroite sur laquelle le marchand comptait autrefois l’argent et où, maintenant, le vendeur étale la marchandise.
- 2Dans un café ou un bar, meuble haut sur lequel sont servies les boissons.
- 3Lieu, bureau où travaillent les commis, où se font et se reçoivent les paiements, etc.
- 4Bureau général de commerce d’une nation en pays étranger.
- 5Foire commerciale.
- 6Plan de travail dans une cuisine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomptoir,cmoptoir,commptoir,compotir,compptoir,comptior,comptoirr,comptori,compttoir,comtpoir,copmtoir,ocmptoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comptoir
Misspelling Variants of "comptoir"
Frequency rank: #8,219 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: