contenaient
\kɔ̃.tə.nɛ\
The verdict
“contenaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,114. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,114
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de contenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contenaient · contenaient · French
contenaient · rank #28,114 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,114
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consonnes
Nearest frequency peer: consonnes (-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 « contenaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conglomérat
conglomérat
71,890 corpus weight
- congrégatio…
congrégations
71,889 corpus weight
- consonnes
consonnes
71,888 corpus weight
- contenaient
contenaient
71,887 corpus weight
- contestent
contestent
71,886 corpus weight
- contrecarrer
contrecarrer
71,885 corpus weight
What this shows « contenaient » 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 | contenaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contenaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around contenaient (IPA \kɔ̃.tə.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,114 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de contenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for contenaient, with forms such as "ccontenaient", "cnotenaient", and "conetnaient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "contenant", "contenait", "contentent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contenaient, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de contenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contenaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré les précautions prises par le notaire, qui vint au-devant de la carriole, il se trouva des témoins, et l’on vit descendre les porte-manteaux et les sacoches qui contenaient l’argent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontenaient
- cnotenaient
- conetnaient
- conntenaient
- conteanient
- contenaeint
- contenaiennt
- contenaientt
- contenaietn
- contenainet
- conteniaent
- contennaient
- contneaient
- conttenaient
- cotnenaient
- ocntenaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contenaient - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contenaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).