contracture
\kɔ̃.tʁak.tyʁ\
The verdict
“contracture” is uncommon French (frequency #62,165 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,165
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rétrécissement qui se fait dans la partie supérieure d’une colonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contracture · contracture · French
contracture · rank #62,165 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,165
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consœur
Nearest frequency peer: consœur (-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 « contracture »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conjoncture…
conjoncturelles
37,839 corpus weight
- Constantino…
Constantinois
37,838 corpus weight
- consœur
consœur
37,837 corpus weight
- contracture
contracture
37,836 corpus weight
- contrefait
contrefait
37,835 corpus weight
- convalescent
convalescent
37,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contracture » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contracture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁak.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contracture » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contracture is uncommon French at frequency #62,165 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁak.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for contracture in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contracture, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Rétrécissement qui se fait dans la partie supérieure d’une colonne.
- 2Rigidité plus ou moins considérable et prolongée des muscles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contracture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À noter que Jonathan se plaint d’une légère contracture à la cuisse, ce qui expliquerait en partie sa course moyenne.
Un défaut d’occlusion de la mâchoire, un mauvais appui du pied sur le sol, des chocs et des traumatismes peuvent également déclencher des contractures et douleurs cervico-dorsales.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).