contract
[ˈkɒntrækt]
The verdict
“contract” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,197. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,197
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contrat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contract · contract · French
contract · rank #40,197 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,197
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contournant
Nearest frequency peer: contournant (-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 « contract »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- corbière
corbière
59,801 corpus weight
What this shows « contract » 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 | contract |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɒntrækt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contract »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around contract (IPA [ˈkɒntrækt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,197 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Contrat.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for contract, with forms such as "ccontract", "cnotract", and "conntract". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "contrat", "contrats", "contraint", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is contract, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T.
Definition
- 1Contrat.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontract
- cnotract
- conntract
- conrtact
- contarct
- contracct
- contractt
- contratc
- contrcat
- contrract
- conttract
- cotnract
- ocntract
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contract - 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 "contract", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).