contraignit
\kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲi\
The verdict
“contraignit” is uncommon French (frequency #81,023 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,023
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contraindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contraignit · contraignit · French
contraignit · rank #81,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,023
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consultera
Nearest frequency peer: consultera (-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 « contraignit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- congruence
congruence
18,981 corpus weight
- considered
considered
18,980 corpus weight
- consultera
consultera
18,979 corpus weight
- contraignit
contraignit
18,978 corpus weight
- contrebalan…
contrebalance
18,977 corpus weight
- contro
contro
18,976 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contraignit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contraignit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contraignit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contraignit is uncommon French at frequency #81,023 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contraindre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for contraignit in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contraignit, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-I-G-N-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contraindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contraignit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour finir, il creva et déjanta, ce qui le contraignit à traîner à son côté la bicyclette inutile dont la roue avant tournait en se grippant avec un bruit mou.
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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