contingents
\kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“contingents” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,440. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,440
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contingent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contingents · contingents · French
contingents · rank #35,440 · 18 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,440
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contentait
Nearest frequency peer: contentait (-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 « contingents »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- congelés
congelés
64,564 corpus weight
- congénitale
congénitale
64,563 corpus weight
- contentait
contentait
64,562 corpus weight
- contingents
contingents
64,561 corpus weight
- contrebasse
contrebasse
64,559 corpus weight
- contretemps
contretemps
64,558 corpus weight
What this shows « contingents » 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 | contingents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #35,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contingents »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around contingents (IPA \kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,440 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contingent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for contingents, with forms such as "ccontingents", "cnotingents", and "conitngents". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "continuent", "continent", "continents", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contingents, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-G-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contingent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contingents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Où sont les fameux militaires de carrière ? Le ministre de la Guerre a reconnu lui-même qu’il ne les avait pas. Et cependant, c’est parmi eux que l’on doit prélever les cadres nécessaires pour l’instruction des contingents annuels !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontingents
- cnotingents
- conitngents
- conntingents
- contignents
- continegnts
- contingennts
- contingenst
- contingentss
- contingentts
- contingetns
- continggents
- contingnets
- continngents
- contnigents
- conttingents
- cotningents
- ocntingents
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contingents - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).