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contex

obsolete

contex is a verb meaning “To weave together; to form by interweaving” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-N-T-E-X, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does contex mean?

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo weave together; to form by interweaving.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of contex

  • contexes present, singular, he/she/it
  • contexing participle, present
  • contexed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is contex?

Contex appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does contex come from?

From Latin contexere.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).