contestait
\kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ\
The verdict
“contestait” is uncommon French (frequency #57,844 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,844
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contestait · contestait · French
contestait · rank #57,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,844
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consœurs
Nearest frequency peer: consœurs (-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 « contestait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- confirmes
confirmes
42,161 corpus weight
- connasses
connasses
42,160 corpus weight
- consœurs
consœurs
42,158 corpus weight
- contestait
contestait
42,157 corpus weight
- convergente
convergente
42,156 corpus weight
- convexes
convexes
42,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contestait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contestait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contestait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contestait is uncommon French at frequency #57,844 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɛs.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contester.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contestait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is contestait, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de contester.
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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