contraceptif
\kɔ̃.tʁa.sɛp.tif\
The verdict
“contraceptif” is uncommon French (frequency #50,740 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,740
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tend à rendre impossible la grossesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contraceptif · contraceptif · French
contraceptif · rank #50,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,740
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH continueraient
Nearest frequency peer: continueraient (-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 « contraceptif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contemporary
contemporary
49,264 corpus weight
- contentement
contentement
49,263 corpus weight
- continuerai…
continueraient
49,262 corpus weight
- contraceptif
contraceptif
49,261 corpus weight
- convier
convier
49,260 corpus weight
- corbie
corbie
49,259 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contraceptif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contraceptif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁa.sɛp.tif\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contraceptif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contraceptif is uncommon French at frequency #50,740 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁa.sɛp.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui tend à rendre impossible la grossesse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contraceptif, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contraceptif, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-E-P-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui tend à rendre impossible la grossesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contraceptif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pilule contraceptive.
Synonyms
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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