contiguë
The verdict
“contiguë” is uncommon French (frequency #71,383 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,383
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin singulier de contigu.
| 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) |
Where “contiguë” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
contiguë is uncommon French at frequency #71,383 among 257,141 “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.
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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Using “contiguë”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-T-I-G-U-Ë - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.