contagieux
\kɔ̃.ta.ʒjø\
The verdict
“contagieux” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,403
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se prend et se communique par contagion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contagieux · contagieux · French
contagieux · rank #20,403 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,403
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Connor
Nearest frequency peer: Connor (-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 « contagieux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- congestion
congestion
79,601 corpus weight
- conjonction
conjonction
79,600 corpus weight
- Connor
Connor
79,599 corpus weight
- contagieux
contagieux
79,598 corpus weight
- convainc
convainc
79,597 corpus weight
- convenait
convenait
79,596 corpus weight
What this shows « contagieux » 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 | contagieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ta.ʒjø\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contagieux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around contagieux (IPA \kɔ̃.ta.ʒjø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,403 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for contagieux, with forms such as "ccontagieux", "cnotagieux", and "conatgieux". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "contagieuse", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contagieux, spelled C-O-N-T-A-G-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui se prend et se communique par contagion.
- 2Qualifie un être atteint d’un tel mal.
- 3Qui favorise la contagion.
- 4Qui se communique par la fréquentation ou par l’exemple, en bien comme en mal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contagieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; ce champignon parasite est réputé une maladie contagieuse par les cultivateurs , et sa persistance dans les champs où il s'est montré une première fois, vient à l'appui de leur croyance.
L’on y rencontre aussi le courtier, […], sans omettre toute la tribu des maquignons interlopes, véritables propagateurs de maladies contagieuses.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontagieux
- cnotagieux
- conatgieux
- conntagieux
- contageiux
- contaggieux
- contagieuxx
- contagiexu
- contagiuex
- contaigeux
- contgaieux
- conttagieux
- cotnagieux
- ocntagieux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contagieux - 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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