container
\kɔ̃.tɛ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“container” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,109. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,109
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conteneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-container · container · French
container · rank #30,109 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,109
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consacra
Nearest frequency peer: consacra (-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 « container »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- confiants
confiants
69,895 corpus weight
- confisqués
confisqués
69,894 corpus weight
- consacra
consacra
69,893 corpus weight
- container
container
69,892 corpus weight
- continus
continus
69,891 corpus weight
- contrepoids
contrepoids
69,890 corpus weight
What this shows « container » 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 | container |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « container »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around container (IPA \kɔ̃.tɛ.nɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,109 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Conteneur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for container, with forms such as "ccontainer", "cnotainer", and "conatiner". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "continuer", "contamine", "contaminer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is container, spelled C-O-N-T-A-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Conteneur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how container appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les « containers », lâchés au-dessus du champ comme une main laisse tomber une lettre dans l’ouverture d’une boîte, descendaient doucement au-dessus des têtes.
Elle m’a raconté plus tard les heures qu’elle passait dans un terrain vague voisin à explorer les containers à déchets, dans l’espoir d’y dénicher quelque trésor.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontainer
- cnotainer
- conatiner
- conntainer
- contaienr
- containerr
- containner
- containre
- contanier
- contianer
- conttainer
- cotnainer
- ocntainer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of container - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).