contagieuses
\kɔ̃.ta.ʒjøz\
The verdict
“contagieuses” is uncommon French (frequency #52,588 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,588
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de contagieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contagieuses · contagieuses · French
contagieuses · rank #52,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,588
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constitutives
Nearest frequency peer: constitutives (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « contagieuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Connery
Connery
47,416 corpus weight
- consommatri…
consommatrice
47,415 corpus weight
- constitutiv…
constitutives
47,414 corpus weight
- contagieuses
contagieuses
47,413 corpus weight
- cope
cope
47,411 corpus weight
- copiant
copiant
47,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contagieuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contagieuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ta.ʒjøz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #52,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contagieuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contagieuses is uncommon French at frequency #52,588 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.ta.ʒjøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de contagieux.".
contagieuses doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contagieuses, spelled C-O-N-T-A-G-I-E-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de contagieux.
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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