contraignants
\kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“contraignants” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,525. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,525
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de contraignant.
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 | contraignants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #45,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contraignants” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around contraignants (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,525 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contraignant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for contraignants, with forms such as "ccontraignants", "cnotraignants", and "conntraignants". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "contraignent", "contraignant", "contraignante", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contraignants, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-I-G-N-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contraignant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontraignants
- cnotraignants
- conntraignants
- conrtaignants
- contarignants
- contraginants
- contraigannts
- contraiggnants
- contraignannts
- contraignanst
- contraignantss
- contraignantts
- contraignatns
- contraignnants
- contraignnats
- contraingants
- contriagnants
- contrraignants
- conttraignants
- cotnraignants
- ocntraignants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contraignants - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “contraignants”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-T-R-A-I-G-N-A-N-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “contraignent” - see the side-by-side comparison. contraignants vs contraignent
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.