contingences
\kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃s\
The verdict
“contingences” is uncommon French (frequency #57,183 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,183
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contingence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contingences · contingences · French
contingences · rank #57,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,183
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contigu
Nearest frequency peer: contigu (-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 « contingences »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conjuguées
conjuguées
42,821 corpus weight
- contigu
contigu
42,819 corpus weight
- contingences
contingences
42,818 corpus weight
- continuée
continuée
42,817 corpus weight
- corporatifs
corporatifs
42,816 corpus weight
- costards
costards
42,815 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contingences » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contingences |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contingences » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contingences is uncommon French at frequency #57,183 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de contingence.".
No misspelling variants are generated for contingences in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 contingences, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-G-E-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contingence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contingences appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’agit tout au plus d’utiliser l’histoire, de la sapientialiser pour ainsi dire, de l’arracher à ses propres contingences, pour la hausser au rang de la parabole, du récit édifiant ou du portrait hagiographique.
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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