contacté
\kɔ̃.tak.te\
The verdict
“contacté” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,805
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de contacter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contacte · contacté · French
contacté · rank #7,805 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,805
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confirmée
Nearest frequency peer: confirmée (-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 « contacté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- condamner
condamner
92,198 corpus weight
- confirmée
confirmée
92,197 corpus weight
- contacté
contacté
92,196 corpus weight
- contestation
contestation
92,195 corpus weight
- contradicti…
contradiction
92,194 corpus weight
- convictions
convictions
92,193 corpus weight
What this shows « contacté » 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 | contacté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tak.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contacté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around contacté (IPA \kɔ̃.tak.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,805 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de contacter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for contacté, with forms such as "ccontacté", "cnotacté", and "conatcté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "contant", "contexte", "contente", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contacté, spelled C-O-N-T-A-C-T-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de contacter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contacté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 2022, Le Nouveau Jouet, signé James Huth et conçu à l’initiative de Jamel Debbouze, qui avait déjà contacté Francis Veber pour reprendre le rôle il y a vingt ans, reprend dans la même trame, avec Daniel Auteuil, et des péripéties remises au goût du jour.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontacté
- cnotacté
- conatcté
- conntacté
- contaccté
- contacte
- contactté
- contacét
- contatcé
- contcaté
- conttacté
- cotnacté
- ocntacté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contacté - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contacté", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).