contiens
\kɔ̃.tjɛ̃\
The verdict
“contiens” is uncommon French (frequency #91,560 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,560
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de contenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contiens · contiens · French
contiens · rank #91,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,560
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contempteurs
Nearest frequency peer: contempteurs (-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 « contiens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consument
consument
8,444 corpus weight
- containing
containing
8,443 corpus weight
- contempteurs
contempteurs
8,442 corpus weight
- contiens
contiens
8,441 corpus weight
- convertisse
convertisse
8,440 corpus weight
- coopté
coopté
8,439 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contiens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contiens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contiens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contiens is uncommon French at frequency #91,560 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for contiens in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is contiens, spelled C-O-N-T-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de contenir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de contenir.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif 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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