contingence
\kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃s\
The verdict
“contingence” is uncommon French (frequency #55,166 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,166
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est contingent ; probabilité de survenance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contingence · contingence · French
contingence · rank #55,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,166
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH construise
Nearest frequency peer: construise (-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 « contingence »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conseillerai
conseillerai
44,838 corpus weight
- consignation
consignation
44,837 corpus weight
- construise
construise
44,836 corpus weight
- contingence
contingence
44,835 corpus weight
- contrebassi…
contrebassiste
44,834 corpus weight
- contribuait
contribuait
44,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contingence » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contingence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contingence » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contingence is uncommon French at frequency #55,166 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contingence, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is contingence, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-G-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est contingent ; probabilité de survenance.
- 2Possibilité qu’une chose arrive ou n’arrive pas ou qu’un être existe ou n’existe pas.
- 3Ce qui peut advenir ou non.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contingence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les méthodes statistiques qui peuvent être employées pour la comparaison des profils sont celles du chi carré, du % d'accord, du coefficient de contingence, du coefficient de corrélation tétrachorique ou ennéachorique.
La contingence implique l’admission d'une cause indéterminée, n’expliquant pas plus un effet qu’un autre, ne fournissant aucune solution déterminée du problème (...) .
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).