contenue

\kɔ̃.tə.ny\

/\kɔ̃.tə.ny\/ adj

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The verdict

“contenue” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,598. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,598
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de contenu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-contenue · contenue · French

contenue · rank #15,598 · 11 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,598
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH constituées

Nearest frequency peer: constituées (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « contenue »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « contenue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

contenue vs continu
75% similar
contenue vs convenu
75% similar
contenue vs conteur
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for contenue
PropertyValue
Headwordcontenue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ̃.tə.ny\
Letters8
Frequency rank#15,598
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contenue »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).contenuese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « constituées » (#15,597), « concentrations » (#15,596), « contraindre » (#15,600). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « contenue » est au #15,598. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around contenue (IPA \kɔ̃.tə.ny\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,598 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de contenu.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for contenue, with forms such as "ccontenue", "cnotenue", and "conetnue". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "continu", "convenu", "conteur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contenue, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de contenu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how contenue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ainsi, la vision anticathare contenue dans le Liber visionum a pu très tôt être comprise comme un complément bienvenu à la vision II d’Hildegarde.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccontenue
  • cnotenue
  • conetnue
  • conntenue
  • conteneu
  • contennue
  • conteune
  • contneue
  • conttenue
  • cotnenue
  • ocntenue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contenue - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ccontenue1cnotenue2conetnue2conntenue1conteneu2contennue1conteune2contneue2
Edit distance from "contenue"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contenue"?
"contenue" is spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.tə.ny\.
What does "contenue" mean?
As an adjective, "contenue" means: Féminin singulier de contenu.
What words are commonly confused with "contenue"?
"contenue" is commonly confused with "continu", "convenu", "conteur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "contenue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "contenue" is \kɔ̃.tə.ny\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "contenue" come from?
"contenue" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contenue", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list