sport de combat
\spɔʁ də kɔ̃.ba\
The verdict
“sport de combat” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport d’affrontement entre deux combattants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sport-de-combat · sport de combat · French
sport de combat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sport de combat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɔʁ də kɔ̃.ba\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sport de combat is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \spɔʁ də kɔ̃.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sport de combat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sport de combat, spelled S-P-O-R-T- -D-E- -C-O-M-B-A-T.
Definition
- 1Sport d’affrontement entre deux combattants.
- 2Tâche difficile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sport de combat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a réfléchi et pense que « oui, l’histoire est un sport de combat ».
[Titre] La sociologie est un sport de combat
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.