contempler
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ple\
The verdict
“contempler” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,844. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,844
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Considérer avec toute la force de son attention, soit avec les yeux, soit par la pensée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contempler · contempler · French
contempler · rank #16,844 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,844
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constantes
Nearest frequency peer: constantes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « contempler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- confidentiel
confidentiel
83,160 corpus weight
- connecte
connecte
83,159 corpus weight
- constantes
constantes
83,158 corpus weight
- contempler
contempler
83,157 corpus weight
- contour
contour
83,156 corpus weight
- corail
corail
83,155 corpus weight
What this shows « contempler » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contempler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ple\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contempler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around contempler (IPA \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ple\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,844 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Considérer avec toute la force de son attention, soit avec les yeux, soit par la pensée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for contempler, with forms such as "ccontempler", "cnotempler", and "conetmpler". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "contemple", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contempler, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Considérer avec toute la force de son attention, soit avec les yeux, soit par la pensée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contempler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais venez, au déclin du jour, contempler notre flotte joyeuse, groupée autour du vaisseau amiral qui porte les pères de la patrie et les héros de la fête.
Vers l’est, l’océan nuageux s’étendait bleu sombre à perte de vue, et Bert crut qu’il contemplait l’hémisphère entier du monde.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontempler
- cnotempler
- conetmpler
- conntempler
- contemlper
- contemmpler
- contempelr
- contemplerr
- contempller
- contemplre
- contemppler
- contepmler
- contmepler
- conttempler
- cotnempler
- ocntempler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contempler - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contempler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).