comtoise
\kɔ̃.twaz\
The verdict
“comtoise” is uncommon French (frequency #69,707 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,707
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Par ellipse, horloge fabriquée en Franche-Comté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-comtoise · comtoise · French
comtoise · rank #69,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,707
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comportée
Nearest frequency peer: comportée (-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 « comtoise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- compilant
compilant
30,297 corpus weight
- complexifier
complexifier
30,296 corpus weight
- comportée
comportée
30,295 corpus weight
- comtoise
comtoise
30,294 corpus weight
- concluons
concluons
30,293 corpus weight
- conscrit
conscrit
30,291 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « comtoise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comtoise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.twaz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « comtoise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
comtoise is uncommon French at frequency #69,707 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.twaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Par ellipse, horloge fabriquée en Franche-Comté.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for comtoise, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 comtoise, spelled C-O-M-T-O-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Par ellipse, horloge fabriquée en Franche-Comté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comtoise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La salle est vide, ils sont les seules clients du café, on entend le tic-tac d’une grosse comtoise, le patron nettoie son zinc en bavardant avec le passeur.
Ma fille, nichée sur mes genoux, la tête dans mon cou, demeurait le plus souvent sage ou bien battait des jambes dans le vide pour marquer le temps comme le balancier d’une comtoise.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).