contest
\ˈkɒn.tɛst\
The verdict
“contest” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,722. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,722
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contest · contest · French
contest · rank #39,722 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,722
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consternant
Nearest frequency peer: consternant (-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 « contest »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conscrits
conscrits
60,282 corpus weight
- conseilles
conseilles
60,281 corpus weight
- consternant
consternant
60,280 corpus weight
- contest
contest
60,279 corpus weight
- contrebandi…
contrebandiers
60,278 corpus weight
- convaincant…
convaincantes
60,277 corpus weight
What this shows « contest » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɒn.tɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contest »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around contest (IPA \ˈkɒn.tɛst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,722 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Concours.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for contest, with forms such as "ccontest", "cnotest", and "conetst". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "côtes", "coptes", "contrat", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contest, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Concours.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontest
- cnotest
- conetst
- conntest
- contesst
- contestt
- contets
- contset
- conttest
- cotnest
- ocntest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contest - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).