contemporaine
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“contemporaine” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,329. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,329
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme vivant en même temps qu’une autre personne de référence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contemporaine · contemporaine · French
contemporaine · rank #5,329 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,329
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constitutionn…
Nearest frequency peer: constitutionnel (-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 « contemporaine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- concernés
concernés
94,675 corpus weight
- console
console
94,674 corpus weight
- constitutio…
constitutionnel
94,673 corpus weight
- contemporai…
contemporaine
94,672 corpus weight
- continu
continu
94,671 corpus weight
- continuez
continuez
94,670 corpus weight
What this shows « contemporaine » 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 | contemporaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #5,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contemporaine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around contemporaine (IPA \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,329 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for contemporaine, with forms such as "ccontemporaine", "cnotemporaine", and "conetmporaine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "contemporains", "contemporaines", "contemporain", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contemporaine, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Femme vivant en même temps qu’une autre personne de référence.
- 2Née la même année.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontemporaine
- cnotemporaine
- conetmporaine
- conntemporaine
- contemmporaine
- contemopraine
- contempoarine
- contemporaien
- contemporainne
- contemporanie
- contemporiane
- contemporraine
- contempporaine
- contemproaine
- contepmoraine
- contmeporaine
- conttemporaine
- cotnemporaine
- ocntemporaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contemporaine - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "contemporaine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).