contestant
\kɔ̃.tɛs.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“contestant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,085. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,085
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui conteste en justice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contestant · contestant · French
contestant · rank #46,085 · 16 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,085
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contemplant
Nearest frequency peer: contemplant (-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 « contestant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consanguins
consanguins
53,919 corpus weight
- consignées
consignées
53,918 corpus weight
- contemplant
contemplant
53,917 corpus weight
- contestant
contestant
53,916 corpus weight
- Cooke
Cooke
53,914 corpus weight
- cork
cork
53,913 corpus weight
What this shows « contestant » 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 | contestant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛs.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #46,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contestant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around contestant (IPA \kɔ̃.tɛs.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,085 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui conteste en justice.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for contestant, with forms such as "ccontestant", "cnotestant", and "conetstant". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "contestent", "contrastant", "constant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is contestant, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui conteste en justice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contestant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les parties contestantes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontestant
- cnotestant
- conetstant
- conntestant
- contesatnt
- contesstant
- contestannt
- contestantt
- contestatn
- contestnat
- contesttant
- contetsant
- contsetant
- conttestant
- cotnestant
- ocntestant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contestant - 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 "contestant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).