continua
\kɔ̃.ti.nɥa\
The verdict
“continua” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,890
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de continuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-continua · continua · French
continua · rank #14,890 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,890
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contingent
Nearest frequency peer: contingent (-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 « continua »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- coquin
coquin
85,109 corpus weight
What this shows « continua » 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 | continua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ti.nɥa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « continua »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around continua (IPA \kɔ̃.ti.nɥa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,890 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de continuer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for continua, with forms such as "ccontinua", "cnotinua", and "conitnua". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "continue", "continus", "continuer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 continua, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de continuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how continua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En soupirant, le Russe continua d’éponger son crâne avant de rempocher son mouchoir.
Le mariage y fut, dit-on, consommé, et il continua à la greluchonner pendant quelque temps ; souvent même il était réduit à se cacher ou à se dérober par une fausse porte lorsque le président, qui en savait bien quelque chose et qui était assez fou pour lutter contre lui, arrivait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontinua
- cnotinua
- conitnua
- conntinua
- continau
- continnua
- contiuna
- contniua
- conttinua
- cotninua
- ocntinua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of continua - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).