contentieuses
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.sjøz\
The verdict
“contentieuses” is uncommon French (frequency #96,780 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,780
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de contentieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contentieuses · contentieuses · French
contentieuses · rank #96,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,780
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consumption
Nearest frequency peer: consumption (-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 « contentieuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consos
consos
3,224 corpus weight
- constations
constations
3,223 corpus weight
- consumption
consumption
3,222 corpus weight
- contentieus…
contentieuses
3,221 corpus weight
- contingente
contingente
3,220 corpus weight
- contrefacte…
contrefacteur
3,219 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contentieuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contentieuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.sjøz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #96,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contentieuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contentieuses is uncommon French at frequency #96,780 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.sjøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de contentieux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for contentieuses in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contentieuses, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-I-E-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel 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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