contournant
\kɔ̃.tuʁ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“contournant” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,196
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de contourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contournant · contournant · French
contournant · rank #40,196 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,196
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conteurs
Nearest frequency peer: conteurs (-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 « contournant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- confuses
confuses
59,808 corpus weight
- conteurs
conteurs
59,806 corpus weight
- contournant
contournant
59,805 corpus weight
- contract
contract
59,804 corpus weight
- copropriétés
copropriétés
59,803 corpus weight
- coral
coral
59,802 corpus weight
What this shows « contournant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contournant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tuʁ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #40,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contournant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around contournant (IPA \kɔ̃.tuʁ.nɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,196 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de contourner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for contournant, with forms such as "ccontournant", "cnotournant", and "conntournant". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is contournant, spelled C-O-N-T-O-U-R-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de contourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contournant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’aime l’épaisseur, l’humidité, le demi-jour d’une forêt vigoureuse; les chemins glissants qui se bronzent, les formes bizarres des fonges et des morilles, le ruisseau contournant la racine, les corbeaux qui bataillent sur la cime des chênes, l’impatience du pic-vert interrogeant une écorce vermoulue, et tous les cris indistincts qui éclatent dans la soli…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontournant
- cnotournant
- conntournant
- conoturnant
- contorunant
- contounrant
- contourannt
- contournannt
- contournantt
- contournatn
- contournnant
- contournnat
- contourrnant
- conttournant
- contuornant
- cotnournant
- ocntournant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contournant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contournant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).