constat

/\kɔ̃s.ta\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,439

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

constat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Acte par lequel un officier ministériel, ou un agent de la force publique relate les constatations qu'il a faites, établit la réalité d'un fait. Pronounced \kɔ̃s.ta\. It ranks #5,439 in French word frequency. Often confused with costa and contrat.

Key facts for constat
PropertyValue
Headwordconstat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃s.ta\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,439
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for constat is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃s.ta\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,439 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for constat, with forms such as "cconstat", "cnostat", and "connstat". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "costa", "contrat", "contact", and more, 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 constat, spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acte par lequel un officier ministériel, ou un agent de la force publique relate les constatations qu'il a faites, établit la réalité d'un fait.
  2. 2
    Constatation d'un état de choses, du résultat d’une action ou d’une série d'actions.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconstat,cnostat,connstat,consatt,consstat,constatt,constta,consttat,contsat,cosntat,ocnstat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for constat

Misspelling Variants of "constat"

cconstat8cnostat7connstat8consatt7consstat8constatt8constta7consttat8
Misspelling Variants of "constat"

Frequency rank: #5,439 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "constat"?
"constat" is spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃s.ta\.
What does "constat" mean?
As a noun, "constat" means: Acte par lequel un officier ministériel, ou un agent de la force publique relate les constatations qu'il a faites, établit la réalité d'un fait.
What words are commonly confused with "constat"?
"constat" is commonly confused with "costa", "contrat", "contact". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "constat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "constat" is \kɔ̃s.ta\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "constat" come from?
"constat" 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.