contentieuse
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.sjøz\
The verdict
“contentieuse” is uncommon French (frequency #73,033 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,033
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de contentieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contentieuse · contentieuse · French
contentieuse · rank #73,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,033
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH considérerons
Nearest frequency peer: considérerons (-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 « contentieuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consciencie…
consciencieuse
26,971 corpus weight
- consentez
consentez
26,970 corpus weight
- considérero…
considérerons
26,969 corpus weight
- contentieuse
contentieuse
26,968 corpus weight
- contextuali…
contextualisation
26,967 corpus weight
- contribuaie…
contribuaient
26,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contentieuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contentieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.sjøz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contentieuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contentieuse is uncommon French at frequency #73,033 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.sjøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de contentieux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for contentieuse in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contentieuse, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de contentieux.
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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