contemporains
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“contemporains” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,802. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,802
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de contemporain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contemporains · contemporains · French
contemporains · rank #6,802 · 20 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,802
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constituée
Nearest frequency peer: constituée (-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 « contemporains »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consommer
consommer
93,201 corpus weight
- constituée
constituée
93,200 corpus weight
- contemporai…
contemporains
93,199 corpus weight
- contes
contes
93,198 corpus weight
- courageux
courageux
93,197 corpus weight
- crever
crever
93,196 corpus weight
What this shows « contemporains » 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 | contemporains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #6,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contemporains »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around contemporains (IPA \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,802 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de contemporain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for contemporains, with forms such as "ccontemporains", "cnotemporains", and "conetmporains". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "contemporain", "contemporaine", "contemporaines", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is contemporains, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-O-R-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de contemporain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contemporains appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était un dictionnaire vivant des grands hommes contemporains que Crabb Robinson ; et il n’est pas étonnant qu’on ait voulu éditer ce dictionnaire quand il eut cessé de pérambuler dans les rues de Londres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontemporains
- cnotemporains
- conetmporains
- conntemporains
- contemmporains
- contemoprains
- contempoarins
- contemporainns
- contemporainss
- contemporaisn
- contemporanis
- contemporians
- contemporrains
- contempporains
- contemproains
- contepmorains
- contmeporains
- conttemporains
- cotnemporains
- ocntemporains
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contemporains - 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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