contractant
\kɔ̃.tʁak.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“contractant” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,358. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,358
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui passe un contrat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contractant · contractant · French
contractant · rank #43,358 · 18 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,358
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contestables
Nearest frequency peer: contestables (-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 « contractant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conjugaux
conjugaux
56,646 corpus weight
- connectent
connectent
56,645 corpus weight
- contestables
contestables
56,644 corpus weight
- contractant
contractant
56,643 corpus weight
- convoitée
convoitée
56,642 corpus weight
- copy
copy
56,641 corpus weight
What this shows « contractant » 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 | contractant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁak.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #43,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contractant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around contractant (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁak.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,358 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui passe un contrat.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for contractant, with forms such as "ccontractant", "cnotractant", and "conntractant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "contrastant", "contrastent", "contractantes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contractant, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui passe un contrat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contractant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… ; c'est lui qui marie les fils et les filles des pairs de France; ces mariages sont pour lui l'occasion de prononcer de petits discours que les parties contractantes font imprimer et conservent précieusement dans la famille.
Nous avons, aux articles de la capacité des parties contractantes, rapporté un arrêt qui a déclaré un ex-maire personnellement responsable d'un emprunt qu'il avait fait en cette qualité.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontractant
- cnotractant
- conntractant
- conrtactant
- contarctant
- contracatnt
- contracctant
- contractannt
- contractantt
- contractatn
- contractnat
- contracttant
- contratcant
- contrcatant
- contrractant
- conttractant
- cotnractant
- ocntractant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contractant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).