contestent
\kɔ̃.tɛst\
The verdict
“contestent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,115. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,115
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contestent · contestent · French
contestent · rank #28,115 · 16 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,115
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contenaient
Nearest frequency peer: contenaient (-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 « contestent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- congrégatio…
congrégations
71,889 corpus weight
- consonnes
consonnes
71,888 corpus weight
- contenaient
contenaient
71,887 corpus weight
- contestent
contestent
71,886 corpus weight
- contrecarrer
contrecarrer
71,885 corpus weight
- corresponde
corresponde
71,884 corpus weight
What this shows « contestent » 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 | contestent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛst\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #28,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contestent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around contestent (IPA \kɔ̃.tɛst\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,115 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for contestent, with forms such as "ccontestent", "cnotestent", and "conetstent". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "contester", "contrastent", "conteste", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is contestent, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contester.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de contester.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contestent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi les Églises libres, par l’intermédiaire du Dr Van DU SEN, contestent le droit d’une Église à "désecclésialiser" les autres confessions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontestent
- cnotestent
- conetstent
- conntestent
- contesetnt
- contesstent
- contestennt
- contestentt
- contestetn
- contestnet
- contesttent
- contetsent
- contsetent
- conttestent
- cotnestent
- ocntestent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contestent - 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 "contestent", 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).