contaminant
\kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“contaminant” is uncommon French (frequency #65,807 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,807
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tout agent biologique ou chimique, toute matière étrangère ou toute autre substance n'étant pas ajoutée intentionnellement aux produits alimentaires et pouvant compromettre la sécurité ou la salubr...
Corpus desk
Index FR-contaminant · contaminant · French
contaminant · rank #65,807 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,807
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consultatives
Nearest frequency peer: consultatives (-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 « contaminant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consensuell…
consensuelles
34,197 corpus weight
- constituère…
constituèrent
34,196 corpus weight
- consultativ…
consultatives
34,195 corpus weight
- contaminant
contaminant
34,194 corpus weight
- conteuse
conteuse
34,193 corpus weight
- contrefort
contrefort
34,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contaminant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contaminant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contaminant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contaminant is uncommon French at frequency #65,807 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tout agent biologique ou chimique, toute matière étrangère ou toute autre substance n'étant pas ajoutée intentionnellement aux produits alimentaires et pouvant compromettre la sécurité ou la salubr...".
contaminant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 contaminant, spelled C-O-N-T-A-M-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Tout agent biologique ou chimique, toute matière étrangère ou toute autre substance n'étant pas ajoutée intentionnellement aux produits alimentaires et pouvant compromettre la sécurité ou la salubrité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contaminant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autre part, on écartait les levures parce qu'on pensait qu’elles étaient des contaminants des lichens.
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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