contingente
\kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t\
The verdict
“contingente” is uncommon French (frequency #96,781 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,781
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de cotangente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contingente · contingente · French
contingente · rank #96,781 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,781
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contentieuses
Nearest frequency peer: contentieuses (-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 « contingente »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- constations
constations
3,223 corpus weight
- consumption
consumption
3,222 corpus weight
- contentieus…
contentieuses
3,221 corpus weight
- contingente
contingente
3,220 corpus weight
- contrefacte…
contrefacteur
3,219 corpus weight
- contrefacte…
contrefacteurs
3,218 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contingente » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contingente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contingente » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contingente is uncommon French at frequency #96,781 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de cotangente.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for contingente in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is contingente, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-G-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de cotangente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contingente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais lorsqu’on peut tirer des lignes droites qui les coupent à angles droits, aux points où elles sont rencontrées par celles avec qui elles font les angles qu’on veut mesurer, ou, ce que je prends ici pour le même, qui coupent leurs contingentes, la grandeur de ces angles n’est pas plus malaisée à trouver que s’ils étaient compris entre deux lignes droites.
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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