contempteurs
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃p.tœʁ\
The verdict
“contempteurs” is uncommon French (frequency #91,559 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,559
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contempteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contempteurs · contempteurs · French
contempteurs · rank #91,559 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,559
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH containing
Nearest frequency peer: containing (-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 « contempteurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consubstant…
consubstantiel
8,445 corpus weight
- consument
consument
8,444 corpus weight
- containing
containing
8,443 corpus weight
- contempteurs
contempteurs
8,442 corpus weight
- contiens
contiens
8,441 corpus weight
- convertisse
convertisse
8,440 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contempteurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contempteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃p.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #91,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contempteurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contempteurs is uncommon French at frequency #91,559 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɑ̃p.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de contempteur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for contempteurs in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contempteurs, spelled C-O-N-T-E-M-P-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contempteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contempteurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant ce temps, l’accusation des communautaristes les plus exacerbés qui s’affichent au côté des Frères musulmans, s’abat sur les défenseurs de la laïcité, traînés dans la boue de l’insulte en « laïcardise » ou en « islamophobie », fonction de l’ampleur du discrédit que leurs contempteurs entendent leur infliger.
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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