bandage de contention
\bɑ̃.daʒ də kɔ̃.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“bandage de contention” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bande souple adhésive, utilisée à des fins préventives, palliatives ou curatives, qui permet de maintenir la partie du corps sur laquelle elle est appliquée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandage de contention |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.daʒ də kɔ̃.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bandage de contention” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bandage de contention is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɑ̃.daʒ də kɔ̃.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Bande souple adhésive, utilisée à des fins préventives, palliatives ou curatives, qui permet de maintenir la partie du corps sur laquelle elle est appliquée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bandage de contention in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 bandage de contention, spelled B-A-N-D-A-G-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bande souple adhésive, utilisée à des fins préventives, palliatives ou curatives, qui permet de maintenir la partie du corps sur laquelle elle est appliquée.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-N-D-A-G-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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