contentement
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃t.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“contentement” is uncommon French (frequency #50,738 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,738
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de celui qui est content, satisfait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contentement · contentement · French
contentement · rank #50,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,738
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contemporary
Nearest frequency peer: contemporary (-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 « contentement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conservons
conservons
49,266 corpus weight
- contemplati…
contemplative
49,265 corpus weight
- contemporary
contemporary
49,264 corpus weight
- contentement
contentement
49,263 corpus weight
- continuerai…
continueraient
49,262 corpus weight
- contraceptif
contraceptif
49,261 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contentement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contentement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃t.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contentement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contentement is uncommon French at frequency #50,738 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɑ̃t.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de celui qui est content, satisfait.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contentement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 contentement, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1État de celui qui est content, satisfait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contentement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], mais on peut aussi être tout à la fois très riche et très malheureux, car l’argent ne donne ni la santé, ni le contentement de soi-même, et il ne préserve pas de l’ennui, cette plaie des oisifs opulents.
Rougon lui-même se laissa prendre à ce contentement de l’homme illettré qui voit ses enfants devenir plus savants que lui.
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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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