contentait
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“contentait” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,439
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contentait · contentait · French
contentait · rank #35,439 · 15 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,439
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH congénitale
Nearest frequency peer: congénitale (-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 « contentait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- confluence
confluence
64,566 corpus weight
- congelés
congelés
64,564 corpus weight
- congénitale
congénitale
64,563 corpus weight
- contentait
contentait
64,562 corpus weight
- contingents
contingents
64,561 corpus weight
- contrebasse
contrebasse
64,559 corpus weight
What this shows « contentait » 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 | contentait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contentait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around contentait (IPA \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,439 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contenter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for contentait, with forms such as "ccontentait", "cnotentait", and "conetntait". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "convenait", "continuait", "contentent", 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 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 contentait, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contenter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contentait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hélène ne s’émotionnait pas autrement de cette terrible accusation qui pesait désormais sur elle, elle avait confiance en sa bonne étoile et, se croyant certaine de pouvoir s’innocenter rapidement, la jeune fille se contentait de hausser les épaules, de secouer la tête.
La grosse femme ne la regardait pas et se contentait d’avancer, râlant dans ses mi-bas qui glissaient mollement sur ses chevilles grasses.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontentait
- cnotentait
- conetntait
- conntentait
- contenatit
- contenntait
- contentaitt
- contentati
- contentiat
- contenttait
- contetnait
- contnetait
- conttentait
- cotnentait
- ocntentait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contentait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).