contentons
\kɔ̃.tɑ̃.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“contentons” is uncommon French (frequency #64,335 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,335
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contentons · contentons · French
contentons · rank #64,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,335
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constitueraie…
Nearest frequency peer: constitueraient (-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 « contentons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- connemara
connemara
35,669 corpus weight
- conseillées
conseillées
35,668 corpus weight
- constituera…
constitueraient
35,667 corpus weight
- contentons
contentons
35,666 corpus weight
- convent
convent
35,665 corpus weight
- convoqua
convoqua
35,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contentons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contentons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contentons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contentons is uncommon French at frequency #64,335 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
contentons has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contentons, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contenter.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de contenter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contentons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Redécouvrons ces saveurs de second plan, contentons-nous des parfums de certains mets (que nous jugeons décevant en bouche tant ils sont parfois plus aromatiques que goûteux), évitons de sur-saler et sur-sucrer, et apprécions les textures.
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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