contorsions
\kɔ̃.tɔʁ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“contorsions” is uncommon French (frequency #56,513 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,513
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contorsion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contorsions · contorsions · French
contorsions · rank #56,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,513
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contentaient
Nearest frequency peer: contentaient (-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 « contorsions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- considérera
considérera
43,491 corpus weight
- constata
constata
43,490 corpus weight
- contentaient
contentaient
43,489 corpus weight
- contorsions
contorsions
43,488 corpus weight
- contractuel…
contractuellement
43,487 corpus weight
- contrevenir
contrevenir
43,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contorsions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contorsions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tɔʁ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contorsions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contorsions is uncommon French at frequency #56,513 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tɔʁ.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de contorsion.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contorsions, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is contorsions, spelled C-O-N-T-O-R-S-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contorsion.
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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