contondant
\kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“contondant” is uncommon French (frequency #79,181 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,181
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui blesse sans percer ni couper, mais en faisant des contusions, comme un bâton, un marteau, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contondant · contondant · French
contondant · rank #79,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,181
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consommera
Nearest frequency peer: consommera (-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 « contondant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- connaîtrai
connaîtrai
20,824 corpus weight
- consensuels
consensuels
20,823 corpus weight
- consommera
consommera
20,821 corpus weight
- contondant
contondant
20,820 corpus weight
- convainquit
convainquit
20,819 corpus weight
- coproducteur
coproducteur
20,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contondant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contondant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contondant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contondant is uncommon French at frequency #79,181 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui blesse sans percer ni couper, mais en faisant des contusions, comme un bâton, un marteau, etc.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contondant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 contondant, spelled C-O-N-T-O-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui blesse sans percer ni couper, mais en faisant des contusions, comme un bâton, un marteau, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contondant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici : le premier squelette est celui d'une jeune fille... presque une enfant... l'autre est celui d'une femme de quarante à cinquante ans... on les a tuées toutes les deux en leur brisant le crâne à coups de marteau ou à coups de bâton... en style judiciaire, avec un instrument contondant...; la mort remonte à une dizaine d'années.
J’ai une fleur bleue contondante Je n’la montre pas à qui veut Elle n'est pourtant pas méchante Ma petite fleur bleue Mais elle est contondante.
This word in other languages
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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