contestable
\kɔ̃.tɛs.tabl\
The verdict
“contestable” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,381. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,381
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être contesté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contestable · contestable · French
contestable · rank #27,381 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,381
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confrontées
Nearest frequency peer: confrontées (-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 « contestable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- computer
computer
72,623 corpus weight
- confluent
confluent
72,622 corpus weight
- confrontées
confrontées
72,621 corpus weight
- contestable
contestable
72,620 corpus weight
- continuum
continuum
72,619 corpus weight
- contrôlant
contrôlant
72,618 corpus weight
What this shows « contestable » 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 | contestable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛs.tabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #27,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contestable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around contestable (IPA \kɔ̃.tɛs.tabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,381 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui peut être contesté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for contestable, with forms such as "ccontestable", "cnotestable", and "conetstable". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "contestables", "constable", "connétable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contestable, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être contesté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contestable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré sa corpulence excessive, l’autorité de M. Hector sur ses subordonnés n’est guère contestable.
En affirmant son choix pour une signification plutôt qu’une autre, elles servent à décontester des concepts fondamentalement contestables.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontestable
- cnotestable
- conetstable
- conntestable
- contesatble
- contesstable
- contestabble
- contestabel
- contestablle
- contestalbe
- contestbale
- contesttable
- contetsable
- contsetable
- conttestable
- cotnestable
- ocntestable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contestable - 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.
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 "contestable", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).