contraignent
\kɔ̃.tʁɛɲ\
The verdict
“contraignent” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,000
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de contraindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contraignent · contraignent · French
contraignent · rank #49,000 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,000
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contractantes
Nearest frequency peer: contractantes (-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 « contraignent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conseillères
conseillères
51,004 corpus weight
- continuerais
continuerais
51,003 corpus weight
- contractant…
contractantes
51,002 corpus weight
- contraignent
contraignent
51,001 corpus weight
- coon
coon
51,000 corpus weight
- cooptation
cooptation
50,999 corpus weight
What this shows « contraignent » 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 | contraignent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #49,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contraignent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around contraignent (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁɛɲ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,000 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for contraignent, with forms such as "ccontraignent", "cnotraignent", and "conntraignent". 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, "contraignant", "contraignante", "contraignants", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contraignent, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-I-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de contraindre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de contraindre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontraignent
- cnotraignent
- conntraignent
- conrtaignent
- contarignent
- contraginent
- contraigennt
- contraiggnent
- contraignennt
- contraignentt
- contraignetn
- contraignnent
- contraignnet
- contraingent
- contriagnent
- contrraignent
- conttraignent
- cotnraignent
- ocntraignent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contraignent - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).