contagieuse
The verdict
“contagieuse” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,493. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,493
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de contagieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contagieuse · contagieuse · French
contagieuse · rank #23,493 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,493
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confesse
Nearest frequency peer: confesse (-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 « contagieuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- commerciali…
commercialiser
76,511 corpus weight
- communautar…
communautarisme
76,510 corpus weight
- confesse
confesse
76,509 corpus weight
- contagieuse
contagieuse
76,508 corpus weight
- continuaient
continuaient
76,506 corpus weight
- continuerai
continuerai
76,505 corpus weight
What this shows « contagieuse » 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 | contagieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #23,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contagieuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around contagieuse, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de contagieux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for contagieuse, with forms such as "ccontagieuse", "cnotagieuse", and "conatgieuse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "contagieux", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contagieuse, spelled C-O-N-T-A-G-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de contagieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contagieuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soit un lapin septicémique, son sang inoculé fait succomber un second lapin à la septicémie, tandis qu’un autre lapin inoculé avec ce même sang préalablement chauffé pendant 10 minutes à 55° non-seulement ne meurt pas, mais est vacciné, septicémisé; et, en effet, ce même lapin, inoculé plus tard avec un sang d’une activité contagieuse rigoureusement établ…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontagieuse
- cnotagieuse
- conatgieuse
- conntagieuse
- contageiuse
- contaggieuse
- contagiesue
- contagieues
- contagieusse
- contagiuese
- contaigeuse
- contgaieuse
- conttagieuse
- cotnagieuse
- ocntagieuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contagieuse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "contagieuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).