contemporaines
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“contemporaines” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,938. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,938
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de contemporain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contemporaines · contemporaines · French
contemporaines · rank #12,938 · 21 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,938
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constitués
Nearest frequency peer: constitués (-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 « contemporaines »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conservées
conservées
87,066 corpus weight
- consoler
consoler
87,065 corpus weight
- constitués
constitués
87,064 corpus weight
- contemporai…
contemporaines
87,063 corpus weight
- Copenhague
Copenhague
87,061 corpus weight
- corne
corne
87,060 corpus weight
What this shows « contemporaines » 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 | contemporaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #12,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contemporaines »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around contemporaines (IPA \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,938 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de contemporain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for contemporaines, with forms such as "ccontemporaines", "cnotemporaines", and "conetmporaines". 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", "contemporain", "contemporaine", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is contemporaines, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de contemporain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contemporaines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus encore, l'édition de 1528 « désarthurianise » Perceforest : le prologue multiplie les références antiques ou contemporaines et n’évoque jamais Arthur ou la Table Ronde, les titres de chapitres, comparés aux rubriques des divers témoins manuscrits, gomment les allusions arthuriennes (mises à part celles à Morgane, qui, nous l’avons vu, n’est plus véri…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontemporaines
- cnotemporaines
- conetmporaines
- conntemporaines
- contemmporaines
- contemopraines
- contempoarines
- contemporaiens
- contemporainess
- contemporainnes
- contemporainse
- contemporanies
- contemporianes
- contemporraines
- contempporaines
- contemproaines
- contepmoraines
- contmeporaines
- conttemporaines
- cotnemporaines
- ocntemporaines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contemporaines - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).