contiendraient
\kɔ̃.tjɛ̃.dʁɛ\
The verdict
“contiendraient” is uncommon French (frequency #87,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,493
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du conditionnel de contenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contiendraient · contiendraient · French
contiendraient · rank #87,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,493
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contestaient
Nearest frequency peer: contestaient (-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 « contiendraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consista
consista
12,511 corpus weight
- consolez
consolez
12,510 corpus weight
- contestaient
contestaient
12,509 corpus weight
- contiendrai…
contiendraient
12,508 corpus weight
- copernicien…
copernicienne
12,507 corpus weight
- correctrice
correctrice
12,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contiendraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contiendraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tjɛ̃.dʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #87,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contiendraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contiendraient is uncommon French at frequency #87,493 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tjɛ̃.dʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du conditionnel de contenir.".
contiendraient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 contiendraient, spelled C-O-N-T-I-E-N-D-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du conditionnel de contenir.
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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