contester
\kɔ̃.tɛs.te\
The verdict
“contester” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,806. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,806
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre en discussion ce que quelqu’un revendique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contester · contester · French
contester · rank #9,806 · 14 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,806
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrôlée
Nearest frequency peer: contrôlée (+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 « contester »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- confrères
confrères
90,198 corpus weight
- connards
connards
90,197 corpus weight
- contester
contester
90,195 corpus weight
- contrôlée
contrôlée
90,194 corpus weight
- convaincus
convaincus
90,193 corpus weight
- coureur
coureur
90,192 corpus weight
What this shows « contester » 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 | contester |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛs.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contester »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around contester (IPA \kɔ̃.tɛs.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,806 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for contester, with forms such as "ccontester", "cnotester", and "conetster". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "contexte", "contextes", "contest", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contester, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre en discussion ce que quelqu’un revendique.
- 2Nier une chose comme étant réelle ou juste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contester appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nom de Badb est très difficile à analyser, et son étymologie est complexe et contestée.
Il me conteste ma qualité. Il se plaît à contester.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontester
- cnotester
- conetster
- conntester
- contesetr
- contesster
- contesterr
- contestre
- contestter
- contetser
- contseter
- conttester
- cotnester
- ocntester
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contester - 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 "contester", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).