comtal
\kɔ̃.tal\
The verdict
“comtal” is uncommon French (frequency #82,808 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,808
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à un comte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comtal · comtal · French
comtal · rank #82,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,808
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concubins
Nearest frequency peer: concubins (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « comtal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- collerait
collerait
17,197 corpus weight
- column
column
17,196 corpus weight
- comtal
comtal
17,193 corpus weight
- concubins
concubins
17,192 corpus weight
- conditionne…
conditionnels
17,191 corpus weight
- condés
condés
17,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comtal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comtal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comtal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comtal is uncommon French at frequency #82,808 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui se rapporte à un comte.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for comtal, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is comtal, spelled C-O-M-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à un comte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comtal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Pamiers, dans le comté de Foix, eut lien en 1446 un procès retentissant impliquant Antoine Simon, un esclave noir de Barcelone, qui s’était enfui et mis au service de Pierre Toc, lieutenant du juge comtal.
Il est remarquable que le feudiste Andrea d’Isernia ait tenu à bien préciser qu’une concession féodale par le roi n’implique pas de concession juridictionnelle, […], alors que les concessions de titres ducaux, comtaux ou marquisaux sont des prérogatives juridictionnelles que le roi pouvait ajouter aux concessions de bénéfices.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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