continus
\kɔ̃.ti.ny\
The verdict
“continus” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,110
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de continu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-continus · continus · French
continus · rank #30,110 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,110
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH container
Nearest frequency peer: container (-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 « continus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- confisqués
confisqués
69,894 corpus weight
- consacra
consacra
69,893 corpus weight
- container
container
69,892 corpus weight
- continus
continus
69,891 corpus weight
- contrepoids
contrepoids
69,890 corpus weight
- contrôlait
contrôlait
69,889 corpus weight
What this shows « continus » 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 | continus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ti.ny\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « continus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around continus (IPA \kɔ̃.ti.ny\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,110 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de continu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for continus, with forms such as "ccontinus", "cnotinus", and "conitnus". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "convenus", "continuum", "connus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is continus, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de continu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how continus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je montrerai que certains concepts inventés par des économistes dès les années 1950 et par des statisticiens dans les années 1960 peuvent être remis au goût du jour pour fournir des modèles de systèmes de transition mêlant choix probabiliste et choix non déterministes (démoniaque, angélique, chaotique, … au choix), et ce même dans des espaces à états cont…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontinus
- cnotinus
- conitnus
- conntinus
- continnus
- continsu
- continuss
- contiuns
- contnius
- conttinus
- cotninus
- ocntinus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of continus - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "continus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).