contenus

/\kɔ̃t.ny\/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,233

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

contenus is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin pluriel de contenu. Pronounced \kɔ̃t.ny\. It ranks #5,233 in French word frequency. Often confused with contes and continu.

Key facts for contenus
PropertyValue
Headwordcontenus
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kɔ̃t.ny\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,233
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of contenus in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for contenus is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃t.ny\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,233 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de contenu.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for contenus, with forms such as "ccontenus", "cnotenus", and "conetnus". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "contes", "continu", "convenu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is contenus, spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de contenu.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccontenus,cnotenus,conetnus,conntenus,contennus,contensu,contenuss,conteuns,contneus,conttenus,cotnenus,ocntenus

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contenus

Misspelling Variants of "contenus"

ccontenus9cnotenus8conetnus8conntenus9contennus9contensu8contenuss9conteuns8
Misspelling Variants of "contenus"

Frequency rank: #5,233 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contenus"?
"contenus" is spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃t.ny\.
What does "contenus" mean?
As an adj, "contenus" means: Masculin pluriel de contenu.
What words are commonly confused with "contenus"?
"contenus" is commonly confused with "contes", "continu", "convenu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "contenus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "contenus" is \kɔ̃t.ny\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "contenus" come from?
"contenus" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.