contraception
\kɔ̃.tʁa.sɛp.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“contraception” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,101
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moyen employé pour éviter que des rapports sexuels n’aboutissent à une grossesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contraception · contraception · French
contraception · rank #16,101 · 20 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,101
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constatée
Nearest frequency peer: constatée (-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 « contraception »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- concernait
concernait
83,903 corpus weight
- connaîtra
connaîtra
83,902 corpus weight
- constatée
constatée
83,901 corpus weight
- contracepti…
contraception
83,900 corpus weight
- core
core
83,899 corpus weight
- corn
corn
83,898 corpus weight
What this shows « contraception » 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 | contraception |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁa.sɛp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #16,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contraception »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around contraception (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁa.sɛp.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,101 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Moyen employé pour éviter que des rapports sexuels n’aboutissent à une grossesse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for contraception, with forms such as "ccontraception", "cnotraception", and "conntraception". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "contraction", "contravention", "contraceptive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contraception, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-E-P-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Moyen employé pour éviter que des rapports sexuels n’aboutissent à une grossesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contraception appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En raison de la connaissance limitée du système humain de reproduction, la distinction entre contraception et avortement demeura floue pendant des siècles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontraception
- cnotraception
- conntraception
- conrtaception
- contarception
- contracception
- contracepiton
- contracepption
- contraceptino
- contraceptionn
- contraceptoin
- contracepttion
- contracetpion
- contracpetion
- contraecption
- contrcaeption
- contrraception
- conttraception
- cotnraception
- ocntraception
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contraception - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "contraception", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).