contractions
\kɔ̃.tʁak.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“contractions” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,529
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contraction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contractions · contractions · French
contractions · rank #24,529 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,529
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constituerait
Nearest frequency peer: constituerait (-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 « contractions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- concrétise
concrétise
75,475 corpus weight
- constatatio…
constatations
75,474 corpus weight
- constituera…
constituerait
75,473 corpus weight
- contractions
contractions
75,472 corpus weight
- convivialité
convivialité
75,471 corpus weight
- cordons
cordons
75,470 corpus weight
What this shows « contractions » 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 | contractions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁak.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #24,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contractions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around contractions (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁak.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,529 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contraction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for contractions, with forms such as "ccontractions", "cnotractions", and "conntractions". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "contradictions", "contraction", "constructions", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contractions, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contraction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contractions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le professeur Albers (de Bonn), a vu sur cet animal le cœur se spasmodiser, pâlir et diminuer de volume dans le même moment que des contractions convulsives se montraient dans les membres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontractions
- cnotractions
- conntractions
- conrtactions
- contarctions
- contracctions
- contracitons
- contractinos
- contractionns
- contractionss
- contractiosn
- contractoins
- contracttions
- contratcions
- contrcations
- contrractions
- conttractions
- cotnractions
- ocntractions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contractions - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "contractions"?
What does "contractions" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "contractions"?
How do you pronounce "contractions"?
What language does "contractions" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contractions", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).