contenterais
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.tə.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“contenterais” is uncommon French (frequency #69,714 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,714
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de contenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contenterais · contenterais · French
contenterais · rank #69,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,714
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constatera
Nearest frequency peer: constatera (-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 « contenterais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consentantes
consentantes
30,290 corpus weight
- conspirateur
conspirateur
30,289 corpus weight
- constatera
constatera
30,288 corpus weight
- contenterais
contenterais
30,287 corpus weight
- contracepti…
contraceptives
30,286 corpus weight
- contrôlera
contrôlera
30,285 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contenterais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contenterais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.tə.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #69,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contenterais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contenterais is uncommon French at frequency #69,714 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.tə.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contenterais, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is contenterais, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-E-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de contenter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de contenter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contenterais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me contenterais aussi bien d’être un alcoolo, un semi-clodo qu’en a rien à branler, qui glande.
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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