contractures
\kɔ̃.tʁak.tyʁ\
The verdict
“contractures” is uncommon French (frequency #78,295 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,295
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contracture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contractures · contractures · French
contractures · rank #78,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,295
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH continuels
Nearest frequency peer: continuels (-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 « contractures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- constructiv…
constructiviste
21,709 corpus weight
- contextuels
contextuels
21,708 corpus weight
- continuels
continuels
21,707 corpus weight
- contractures
contractures
21,706 corpus weight
- contrefiche
contrefiche
21,705 corpus weight
- contrevienn…
contreviennent
21,704 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contractures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contractures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁak.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #78,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contractures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contractures is uncommon French at frequency #78,295 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁak.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de contracture.".
Zero misspellings are on record for contractures in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 contractures, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contracture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contractures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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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