contacts
\kɔ̃.takt\
The verdict
“contacts” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,562. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,562
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contact.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contacts · contacts · French
contacts · rank #4,562 · 13 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,562
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conserve
Nearest frequency peer: conserve (-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 « contacts »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conclure
conclure
95,441 corpus weight
- conserve
conserve
95,440 corpus weight
- contacts
contacts
95,439 corpus weight
- contemporain
contemporain
95,438 corpus weight
- dictionnaire
dictionnaire
95,437 corpus weight
- Disney
Disney
95,436 corpus weight
What this shows « contacts » 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 | contacts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.takt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contacts »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around contacts (IPA \kɔ̃.takt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,562 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contact.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for contacts, with forms such as "ccontacts", "cnotacts", and "conatcts". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "contant", "contrats", "contents", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is contacts, spelled C-O-N-T-A-C-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contact.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contacts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour maintenir l’aimant connecteur M² sous contrôle complet, tout le courant qui lui est fourni, à lui et aux aimants M et M², passe par les contacts du relais R, dont la désaimantation désénergise par conséquent tous les relais qu’il contrôle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontacts
- cnotacts
- conatcts
- conntacts
- contaccts
- contacst
- contactss
- contactts
- contatcs
- contcats
- conttacts
- cotnacts
- ocntacts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contacts - 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 "contacts", 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).