contée
\kɔ̃.te\
The verdict
“contée” is uncommon French (frequency #51,375 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,375
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de conter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contee · contée · French
contée · rank #51,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,375
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contiendrait
Nearest frequency peer: contiendrait (-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 « contée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- confédéral
confédéral
48,629 corpus weight
- congédiement
congédiement
48,628 corpus weight
- contiendrait
contiendrait
48,627 corpus weight
- contée
contée
48,626 corpus weight
- convertisse…
convertisseurs
48,625 corpus weight
- copiste
copiste
48,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contée is uncommon French at frequency #51,375 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de conter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contée, spelled C-O-N-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de conter.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).