cont
\ˈkont\
The verdict
“cont” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,949
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cont · cont · French
cont · rank #44,949 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,949
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH considérais
Nearest frequency peer: considérais (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cont »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Conner
Conner
55,055 corpus weight
- considérais
considérais
55,053 corpus weight
- cont
cont
55,052 corpus weight
- contenta
contenta
55,051 corpus weight
- contienne
contienne
55,050 corpus weight
- contractés
contractés
55,049 corpus weight
What this shows « cont » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cont |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkont\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cont »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cont (IPA \ˈkont\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,949 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Compte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cont, with forms such as "ccont", "cnot", and "connt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ct", "cou", "coq", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cont, spelled C-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Compte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccont
- cnot
- connt
- contt
- cotn
- ocnt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cont - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).