constriction
\kɔ̃s.tʁik.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“constriction” is uncommon French (frequency #95,740 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,740
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de resserrer en pressant tout autour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-constriction · constriction · French
constriction · rank #95,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,740
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrarient
Nearest frequency peer: contrarient (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « constriction »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- confortés
confortés
4,265 corpus weight
- conspiratio…
conspirationnisme
4,264 corpus weight
- constriction
constriction
4,261 corpus weight
- contrarient
contrarient
4,260 corpus weight
- contredits
contredits
4,259 corpus weight
- contrefaites
contrefaites
4,258 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « constriction » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | constriction |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.tʁik.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #95,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « constriction » en français
Rare enough to double-check
constriction is uncommon French at frequency #95,740 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃s.tʁik.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
constriction doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is constriction, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-I-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de resserrer en pressant tout autour.
- 2Dans un générateur de vapeur, étranglement des tubes au niveau des orifices de passage dans les plaques entretoises, résultant d'une corrosion accélérée du métal de ces plaques.
- 3Articulation caractérisée par un resserrement du conduit vocal et une compression de l'air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how constriction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La constriction du larynx.
Il me sembla que la lumière baissait brusquement, et que je sentais comme une légère constriction aux tempes ; quelque chose allait commencer.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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