contractent
\kɔ̃.tʁakt\
The verdict
“contractent” is uncommon French (frequency #54,497 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,497
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contracter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contractent · contractent · French
contractent · rank #54,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,497
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consumé
Nearest frequency peer: consumé (-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 « contractent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consequence
consequence
45,507 corpus weight
- consommatri…
consommatrices
45,506 corpus weight
- consumé
consumé
45,505 corpus weight
- contractent
contractent
45,504 corpus weight
- convaincues
convaincues
45,503 corpus weight
- coquard
coquard
45,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contractent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contractent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁakt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contractent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contractent is uncommon French at frequency #54,497 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁakt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
contractent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contractent, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contracter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de contracter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contractent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le refus des déterminations qui tout à la fois incarnent et contractent l’idée de liberté a fait le lit de l’anarchie et de la dictature des petits comités.
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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