context
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,524
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
context is aFrenchnoun. It means: Contexte. Pronounced \ˈkɒn.tɛkst\. Often confused with cortex and contrat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | context |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkɒn.tɛkst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for context is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈkɒn.tɛkst\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,524 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Contexte.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for context, with forms such as "ccontext", "cnotext", and "conetxt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cortex", "contrat", "coûtent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is context, spelled C-O-N-T-E-X-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contexte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontext,cnotext,conetxt,conntext,contetx,contextt,contexxt,conttext,contxet,cotnext,ocntext
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for context
Misspelling Variants of "context"
Frequency rank: #45,524 in French
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