contours
\kɔ̃.tuʁ\
The verdict
“contours” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,476
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contours · contours · French
contours · rank #10,476 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,476
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH considérations
Nearest frequency peer: considérations (-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 « contours »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- concrètes
concrètes
89,528 corpus weight
- conservés
conservés
89,527 corpus weight
- considérati…
considérations
89,526 corpus weight
- contours
contours
89,525 corpus weight
- couvertures
couvertures
89,524 corpus weight
- cracher
cracher
89,523 corpus weight
What this shows « contours » 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 | contours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tuʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contours »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around contours (IPA \kɔ̃.tuʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,476 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for contours, with forms such as "ccontours", "cnotours", and "conntours". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "contour", "conteur", "concours", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is contours, spelled C-O-N-T-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien de moins raide, de moins sec, de moins compassé que ces contours, ils y sont moelleux, et dans les esquisses les connaisseurs trouvent dans chaque trait, une pensée, un dessein, et dans leur réunion un poème tout entier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontours
- cnotours
- conntours
- conoturs
- contorus
- contourrs
- contourss
- contousr
- conttours
- contuors
- cotnours
- ocntours
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contours - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "contours", 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).