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French, verb/kɔ̃.tɑ̃/

content is spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T (7 letters) and appears 55 times per million words in written French, the 1,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Content is a French verb meaning “third-person plural present/subjunctive of conter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does content mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    content, satisfied, pleased

verb

  1. 1

    third-person plural present/subjunctive of conter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Satisfait, heureux. 2. S’estimant beaucoup, au-dessus de son mérite. 3. Ne désirant rien de plus ou de mieux.

noun: 1. Toute la quantité que l’on désire.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of content

  • contente feminine
  • contents masculine plural
  • contentes feminine plural
  • comptant

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce content?

  • /kɔ̃.tɑ̃/
  • /kɔ̃t/
  • \kɔ̃.tɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to content

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is content in French?

content appears 55 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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