comte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,947
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
comte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dignitaire des derniers temps de l’empire romain et du bas-empire. Pronounced \kɔ̃t\. It ranks #1,947 in French word frequency. Often confused with Cte and côte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for comte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,947 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for comte, with forms such as "ccomte", "cmote", and "comet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cte", "côte", "coût", 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 comte, spelled C-O-M-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dignitaire des derniers temps de l’empire romain et du bas-empire.
- 2Commandant militaire.
- 3Fonctionnaire gouvernant une division du territoire sous l’autorité du roi ; en échange de ce service, les comtes reçoivent le droit de percevoir les revenus de propriétés publiques ou des droits régaliens, le bénéfice.
- 4Souverain d’une seigneurie du premier degré, dans le régime féodal.
- 5Titre de noblesse, qui désigne le dignitaire d’un rang au-dessus des vicomtes et un au-dessous de celui de marquis.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomte,cmote,comet,commte,comtte,cotme,ocmte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comte
Misspelling Variants of "comte"
Frequency rank: #1,947 in French
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