contractées

\kɔ̃.tʁak.te\

/\kɔ̃.tʁak.te\/ adj

The verdict

“contractées” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,250
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de contracté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-contractees · contractées · French

contractées · rank #47,250 · 18 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,250
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH contraceptive

Nearest frequency peer: contraceptive (-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 « contractées »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « contractées » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

contractées vs contracter
82% similar
contractées vs contrastée
82% similar
contractées vs contractés
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for contractées
PropertyValue
Headwordcontractées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ̃.tʁak.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#47,250
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contractées »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).contractéesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « contraceptive » (#47,249), « contredis » (#47,251), « consignés » (#47,248). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « contractées » est au #47,250. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around contractées (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁak.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,250 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de contracté.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for contractées, with forms such as "ccontractées", "cnotractées", and "conntractées". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "contracter", "contrastée", "contractés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contractées, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de contracté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how contractées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’est l’examen des illustrations qui nous a permis de reconnaître des positions hyper-contractées, contractées et fléchies.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccontractées
  • cnotractées
  • conntractées
  • conrtactées
  • contarctées
  • contracctées
  • contractees
  • contracteés
  • contracttées
  • contractéess
  • contractése
  • contracétes
  • contratcées
  • contrcatées
  • contrractées
  • conttractées
  • cotnractées
  • ocntractées

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contractées - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccontractées1cnotractées2conntractées1conrtactées2contarctées2contracctées1contractees1contracteés2
Edit distance from "contractées"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contractées"?
"contractées" is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.tʁak.te\.
What does "contractées" mean?
As an adjective, "contractées" means: Féminin pluriel de contracté.
What words are commonly confused with "contractées"?
"contractées" is commonly confused with "contracter", "contrastée", "contractés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "contractées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "contractées" is \kɔ̃.tʁak.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "contractées" come from?
"contractées" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contractées", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list