contextuel
\kɔ̃.tɛks.ty.ɛl\
The verdict
“contextuel” is uncommon French (frequency #68,161 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,161
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a trait à un contexte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contextuel · contextuel · French
contextuel · rank #68,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,161
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contextualiser
Nearest frequency peer: contextualiser (-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 « contextuel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- constaterez
constaterez
31,843 corpus weight
- construisir…
construisirent
31,842 corpus weight
- contextuali…
contextualiser
31,841 corpus weight
- contextuel
contextuel
31,840 corpus weight
- convenaient
convenaient
31,838 corpus weight
- copistes
copistes
31,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contextuel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contextuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛks.ty.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contextuel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contextuel is uncommon French at frequency #68,161 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɛks.ty.ɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a trait à un contexte.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contextuel, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contextuel, spelled C-O-N-T-E-X-T-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a trait à un contexte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contextuel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Étude contextuelle.
This word in other languages
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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