contempla
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla\
The verdict
“contempla” is uncommon French (frequency #97,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,809
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contempler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contempla · contempla · French
contempla · rank #97,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,809
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consumait
Nearest frequency peer: consumait (-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 « contempla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consentait
consentait
2,195 corpus weight
- consumait
consumait
2,193 corpus weight
- contempla
contempla
2,192 corpus weight
- contemplati…
contemplations
2,191 corpus weight
- contemporan…
contemporanéité
2,190 corpus weight
- convaincs
convaincs
2,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contempla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contempla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contempla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contempla is uncommon French at frequency #97,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contempler.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contempla, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 contempla, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contempler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contempla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rigou contempla, pour la millième fois, cette salle à manger, planchéiée en chêne, plafonnée à moulures, garnie de belles armoires bien peintes, boisée à hauteur d’appui, ornée d’un beau poêle et d’un cartel magnifique, provenus de Mlle Laguerre.
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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