contingent
\kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“contingent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,889
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est éventuel ; qui peut arriver ou ne pas arriver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contingent · contingent · French
contingent · rank #14,889 · 16 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,889
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consultants
Nearest frequency peer: consultants (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « contingent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consortium
consortium
85,115 corpus weight
- Constantine
Constantine
85,114 corpus weight
- consultants
consultants
85,113 corpus weight
- contingent
contingent
85,112 corpus weight
- continua
continua
85,111 corpus weight
- conventionn…
conventionnel
85,110 corpus weight
What this shows « contingent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contingent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contingent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around contingent (IPA \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,889 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for contingent, with forms such as "ccontingent", "cnotingent", and "conitngent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "continuent", "continuant", "contingents", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is contingent, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est éventuel ; qui peut arriver ou ne pas arriver.
- 2Qualifie une chose sur laquelle il ne faut pas compter.
- 3Qualifie un être qui pourrait ne pas être.
- 4Qualifie les propositions qui énoncent une chose qui peut être ou ne pas être.
- 5Qualifie la part ou la portion qui peut appartenir à quelqu’un dans un partage.
- 6Qui peut, ou pourrait ne pas être, par opposition à « nécessaire ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contingent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Résolu, Qu’une somme n’excédant pas soixante et dix mille dollars, soit accordée à Sa Majesté, pour défrayer les dépenses contingentes du Conseil législatif pour l’année 1861.
Cette idée se retrouve aussi dans Scot qui, tout en admettant la vérité (ou fausseté) des futurs contingents, étant donné la connaissance que Dieu en a, renie la doctrine de la nécessité du présent. Il y a, selon Scot, plusieurs présents equipossibles et c’est ici que l’on retrouve la nature de la contingence et la possibilité du libre arbitre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontingent
- cnotingent
- conitngent
- conntingent
- contignent
- continegnt
- contingennt
- contingentt
- contingetn
- continggent
- contingnet
- continngent
- contnigent
- conttingent
- cotningent
- ocntingent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contingent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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