contournent
\kɔ̃.tuʁn\
The verdict
“contournent” is uncommon French (frequency #55,851 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,851
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contournent · contournent · French
contournent · rank #55,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,851
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contactera
Nearest frequency peer: contactera (-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 « contournent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- constructib…
constructible
44,153 corpus weight
- consumérisme
consumérisme
44,152 corpus weight
- contactera
contactera
44,151 corpus weight
- contournent
contournent
44,150 corpus weight
- contradicte…
contradicteur
44,149 corpus weight
- contrariés
contrariés
44,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contournent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contournent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tuʁn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contournent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contournent is uncommon French at frequency #55,851 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tuʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contournent, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contournent, spelled C-O-N-T-O-U-R-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contourner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de contourner.
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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