contenta
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ta\
The verdict
“contenta” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,950. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,950
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contenta · contenta · French
contenta · rank #44,950 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,950
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cont
Nearest frequency peer: cont (-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 « contenta »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- considérais
considérais
55,053 corpus weight
- cont
cont
55,052 corpus weight
- contenta
contenta
55,051 corpus weight
- contienne
contienne
55,050 corpus weight
- contractés
contractés
55,049 corpus weight
- contradicte…
contradicteurs
55,048 corpus weight
What this shows « contenta » 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 | contenta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contenta »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around contenta (IPA \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.ta\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,950 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contenter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for contenta, with forms such as "ccontenta", "cnotenta", and "conetnta". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "contenu", "coûtent", "contest", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is contenta, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contenter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contenta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voulait me mettre d’abord à la barre où l’on met les scélérats violents qui veulent forcer les prisons, mais sur ce que le geôlier dit qu’elle n’était pas en état, on se contenta de me faire mettre aux pieds les fers les plus lourds et les plus meurtriers, on eut même soin de les faire débourreler pour qu’ils me blessassent davantage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontenta
- cnotenta
- conetnta
- conntenta
- contenat
- contennta
- contentta
- contetna
- contneta
- conttenta
- cotnenta
- ocntenta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contenta - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).