contiguë
The verdict
“contiguë” is uncommon French (frequency #71,383 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,383
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de contigu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contigue · contiguë · French
contiguë · rank #71,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,383
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contemplez
Nearest frequency peer: contemplez (-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 « contiguë »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consolident
consolident
28,621 corpus weight
- conspiratio…
conspirationniste
28,620 corpus weight
- contemplez
contemplez
28,619 corpus weight
- contiguë
contiguë
28,618 corpus weight
- contrariant
contrariant
28,617 corpus weight
- contrepèter…
contrepèterie
28,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contiguë » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contiguë |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contiguë » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contiguë is uncommon French at frequency #71,383 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de contigu.".
contiguë doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 contiguë, spelled C-O-N-T-I-G-U-Ë.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de contigu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contiguë appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ravins dont la réunion forme la vallée de la Bresle qui s'ouvre dans la Manche, au-dessous de la ville d’Eu , commencent par des plis de terrain dans les bois de Formerie et à Secqueville , dépendance contiguë de Bouvresse : […].
La chambre du Dr Grütli était contiguë à la mienne.
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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