comtat
\kɔ̃.ta\
The verdict
“comtat” is uncommon French (frequency #51,369 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,369
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comtat · comtat · French
comtat · rank #51,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,369
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compilés
Nearest frequency peer: compilés (-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 « comtat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- communiquait
communiquait
48,635 corpus weight
- commémorati…
commémoratives
48,634 corpus weight
- compilés
compilés
48,633 corpus weight
- comtat
comtat
48,632 corpus weight
- conciliateur
conciliateur
48,631 corpus weight
- conditionne…
conditionnelles
48,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comtat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comtat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comtat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comtat is uncommon French at frequency #51,369 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for comtat, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is comtat, spelled C-O-M-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Comté.
- 2(Le comtat Venaissin) Le Comtat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comtat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En se penchant, le magistrat tenta en vain de déchiffrer, sur la garde, deux lettres gothiques entrelacées, mais il détermina assez aisément qu’elles étaient sommées d’un heaume, indice d’une baronnie ou d’un comtat.
Elle lui fit part de son embarras, et le Saint-Père trouvant Avignon fort à sa convenance, profitant de la conjoncture, lui proposa de lui vendre le comtat.
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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