contemplative
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla.tiv\
The verdict
“contemplative” is uncommon French (frequency #50,736 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,736
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui se consacre à la vie d’oraison et de méditation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contemplative · contemplative · French
contemplative · rank #50,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,736
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conservons
Nearest frequency peer: conservons (-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 « contemplative »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conforment
conforment
49,268 corpus weight
- cong
cong
49,267 corpus weight
- conservons
conservons
49,266 corpus weight
- contemplati…
contemplative
49,265 corpus weight
- contemporary
contemporary
49,264 corpus weight
- contentement
contentement
49,263 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contemplative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contemplative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla.tiv\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #50,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contemplative » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contemplative is uncommon French at frequency #50,736 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pla.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui se consacre à la vie d’oraison et de méditation.".
contemplative has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contemplative, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-L-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui se consacre à la vie d’oraison et de méditation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contemplative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la personne de Sœur Marie-Henriette de Boumard nous rencontrons une contemplative pour laquelle les conseils du Père de Caussade seront le pur écho du traité salésien.
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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