contenter
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,693
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
contenter is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre quelqu’un content en lui procurant ce qu’il souhaite avoir. Pronounced \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te\. It ranks #6,693 in French word frequency. Often confused with contexte and contents.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contenter is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,693 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for contenter, with forms such as "ccontenter", "cnotenter", and "conetnter". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "contexte", "contents", "conteste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is contenter, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre quelqu’un content en lui procurant ce qu’il souhaite avoir.
- 2Rendre quelqu’un content en lui procurant ce qu’il attend de nous.
- 3Apaiser quelqu’un en lui donnant, en lui accordant quelque chose.
- 4Satisfaire, en parlant des sens et des passions.
- 5Être satisfait d’une chose, s’en accommoder, s’y tenir.
- 6Ne pas vouloir ou ne pas pouvoir faire plus que ce qu’on a fait ; en demeurer là.
- 7Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontenter,cnotenter,conetnter,conntenter,contenetr,contennter,contenterr,contentre,contentter,contetner,contneter,conttenter,cotnenter,ocntenter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contenter
Misspelling Variants of "contenter"
Frequency rank: #6,693 in French
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