prendre en compte

/\pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿ɑ̃ kɔ̃t\/ verb

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

prendre en compte is aFrenchverb. It means: Penser à quelque chose parmi d’autres lors d’une analyse ou d’une réflexion. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿ɑ̃ kɔ̃t\.

Key facts for prendre en compte
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre en compte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿ɑ̃ kɔ̃t\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre en compte is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prendre en compte is 17 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿ɑ̃ kɔ̃t\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Penser à quelque chose parmi d’autres lors d’une analyse ou d’une réflexion.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prendre en compte in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 prendre en compte, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -E-N- -C-O-M-P-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Penser à quelque chose parmi d’autres lors d’une analyse ou d’une réflexion.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre en compte"?
"prendre en compte" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -E-N- -C-O-M-P-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿ɑ̃ kɔ̃t\.
What does "prendre en compte" mean?
As a verb, "prendre en compte" means: Penser à quelque chose parmi d’autres lors d’une analyse ou d’une réflexion.
How do you pronounce "prendre en compte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prendre en compte" is \pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿ɑ̃ kɔ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prendre en compte" come from?
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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.