contact

/\kɔ̃.takt\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,253

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

contact is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de toucher physiquement. Pronounced \kɔ̃.takt\. It ranks #1,253 in French word frequency. Often confused with contrat and content.

Key facts for contact
PropertyValue
Headwordcontact
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.takt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,253
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for contact is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.takt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,253 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 contact, with forms such as "ccontact", "cnotact", and "conatct". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "contrat", "content", "coûtait", 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 contact, spelled C-O-N-T-A-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de toucher physiquement.
  2. 2
    État de deux ou plusieurs corps qui se touchent.
  3. 3
    Liaison ; relation ; communication.
  4. 4
    Personne avec laquelle on est en communication.
  5. 5
    Jonction de deux conducteurs laissant ainsi passer le courant.
  6. 6
    Jonction de deux conducteurs laissant ainsi passer le courant.
  7. 7
    En opérations navales, unité ennemie ou non identifiée dont la présence a été décelée.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccontact,cnotact,conatct,conntact,contacct,contactt,contatc,contcat,conttact,cotnact,ocntact

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contact

Misspelling Variants of "contact"

ccontact8cnotact7conatct7conntact8contacct8contactt8contatc7contcat7
Misspelling Variants of "contact"

Frequency rank: #1,253 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contact"?
"contact" is spelled C-O-N-T-A-C-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.takt\.
What does "contact" mean?
As a noun, "contact" means: Action de toucher physiquement.
What words are commonly confused with "contact"?
"contact" is commonly confused with "contrat", "content", "coûtait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "contact"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "contact" is \kɔ̃.takt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "contact" come from?
"contact" 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.