contamines
\kɔ̃.ta.min\
The verdict
“contamines” is uncommon French (frequency #93,630 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,630
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de contaminer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contamines · contamines · French
contamines · rank #93,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,630
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consider
Nearest frequency peer: consider (-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 « contamines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conseilleri…
conseilleriez
6,373 corpus weight
- consider
consider
6,372 corpus weight
- contamines
contamines
6,371 corpus weight
- contrit
contrit
6,370 corpus weight
- convergeaie…
convergeaient
6,369 corpus weight
- convoler
convoler
6,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contamines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contamines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ta.min\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contamines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contamines is uncommon French at frequency #93,630 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.ta.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contamines, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 contamines, spelled C-O-N-T-A-M-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de contaminer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de contaminer.
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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