continence
\kɔ̃.ti.nɑ̃s\
The verdict
“continence” is uncommon French (frequency #82,817 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,817
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abstinence par rapport aux plaisirs des sens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-continence · continence · French
continence · rank #82,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,817
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contestera
Nearest frequency peer: contestera (-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 « continence »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- considerati…
consideration
17,186 corpus weight
- contestera
contestera
17,185 corpus weight
- continence
continence
17,184 corpus weight
- contribuera…
contribueraient
17,183 corpus weight
- conviendront
conviendront
17,182 corpus weight
- copi
copi
17,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « continence » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | continence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ti.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « continence » en français
Rare enough to double-check
continence is uncommon French at frequency #82,817 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ti.nɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abstinence par rapport aux plaisirs des sens.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for continence in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is continence, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Abstinence par rapport aux plaisirs des sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how continence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Franchement, à l’âge qu’elle a et que je ne veux dire, il sied d’avoir quelque continence.
Or c’est justement parce que nous savons tout cela que nous considérons les recommandations et les prédications sur la continence comme nuisibles, car c’est fermer les yeux sur un mal qu’il s’agit de combattre.
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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