contradictions
\kɔ̃.tʁa.dik.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“contradictions” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,542
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contradiction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contradictions · contradictions · French
contradictions · rank #12,542 · 22 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,542
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH continuelleme…
Nearest frequency peer: continuellement (-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 « contradictions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consigne
consigne
87,462 corpus weight
- continuelle…
continuellement
87,460 corpus weight
- contradicti…
contradictions
87,459 corpus weight
- croisement
croisement
87,458 corpus weight
- cruauté
cruauté
87,457 corpus weight
- culs
culs
87,456 corpus weight
What this shows « contradictions » 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 | contradictions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁa.dik.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #12,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contradictions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around contradictions (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁa.dik.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,542 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contradiction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for contradictions, with forms such as "ccontradictions", "cnotradictions", and "conntradictions". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "contractions", "contradiction", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contradictions, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-D-I-C-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contradiction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contradictions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y est question de mes oraisons, de mes répétitions, de mes contradictions, de ma prose, de mes jeux de mots, du malheur de ceux qui sont contraints de m’entendre, de mes insinuations, de mes attaques contre les lithotriteurs, etc., mais des objections que je lui ai faites, pas un mot.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontradictions
- cnotradictions
- conntradictions
- conrtadictions
- contardictions
- contradcitions
- contraddictions
- contradicctions
- contradicitons
- contradictinos
- contradictionns
- contradictionss
- contradictiosn
- contradictoins
- contradicttions
- contraditcions
- contraidctions
- contrdaictions
- contrradictions
- conttradictions
- cotnradictions
- ocntradictions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contradictions - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).