conte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,741
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
conte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Récit d’aventures imaginaires, soit qu’elles aient de la vraisemblance ou que s’y mêle du merveilleux, du féerique. Pronounced \kɔ̃t\. It ranks #4,741 in French word frequency. Often confused with Cte and côte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for conte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,741 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for conte, with forms such as "cconte", "cnote", and "conet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cte", "côte", "coût", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is conte, spelled C-O-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récit d’aventures imaginaires, soit qu’elles aient de la vraisemblance ou que s’y mêle du merveilleux, du féerique.
- 2Forme littéraire courte et simple, issue de la tradition populaire et orale, généralement destinée aux lectures divertissantes du soir en communauté ou à l’instruction des enfants.
- 3Histoire plaisante, vraie ou fausse, que l’on dit pour amuser, railler, médire, tromper, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconte,cnote,conet,connte,contte,cotne,ocnte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conte
Misspelling Variants of "conte"
Frequency rank: #4,741 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "conte"?
What does "conte" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "conte"?
How do you pronounce "conte"?
What language does "conte" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: