continuée
\kɔ̃.ti.nɥe\
The verdict
“continuée” is uncommon French (frequency #57,184 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,184
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de continuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-continuee · continuée · French
continuée · rank #57,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,184
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contingences
Nearest frequency peer: contingences (-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 « continuée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- couacs
couacs
42,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « continuée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | continuée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ti.nɥe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « continuée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
continuée is uncommon French at frequency #57,184 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.ti.nɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de continuer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for continuée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is continuée, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de continuer.
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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