corporate

/\kɔʁ.po.ʁɛt\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#22,814

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

corporate is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif à une entreprise, une organisation professionnelle. Pronounced \kɔʁ.po.ʁɛt\. Often confused with corporatif and comporté.

Key facts for corporate
PropertyValue
Headwordcorporate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kɔʁ.po.ʁɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#22,814
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of corporate in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for corporate is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔʁ.po.ʁɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,814 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Relatif à une entreprise, une organisation professionnelle.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for corporate, with forms such as "ccorporate", "coprorate", and "coroprate". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "corporatif", "comporté", 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 corporate, spelled C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à une entreprise, une organisation professionnelle.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccorporate,coprorate,coroprate,corpoarte,corporaet,corporatte,corporrate,corportae,corpporate,corproate,corrporate,croporate,ocrporate

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for corporate

Misspelling Variants of "corporate"

ccorporate10coprorate9coroprate9corpoarte9corporaet9corporatte10corporrate10corportae9
Misspelling Variants of "corporate"

Frequency rank: #22,814 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "corporate"?
"corporate" is spelled C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔʁ.po.ʁɛt\.
What does "corporate" mean?
As an adj, "corporate" means: Relatif à une entreprise, une organisation professionnelle.
What words are commonly confused with "corporate"?
"corporate" is commonly confused with "corporatif", "comporté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "corporate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "corporate" is \kɔʁ.po.ʁɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "corporate" come from?
"corporate" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.