contraindre
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,600
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
contraindre is aFrenchverb. It means: Obliger quelqu’un par la force, la violence morale ou la menace, à faire quelque chose contre son gré. Pronounced \kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃dʁ\. Often confused with contraire and contrainte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contraindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contraindre is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,600 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for contraindre, with forms such as "ccontraindre", "cnotraindre", and "conntraindre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "contraire", "contrainte", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is contraindre, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-I-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Obliger quelqu’un par la force, la violence morale ou la menace, à faire quelque chose contre son gré.
- 2Forcer, à donner ou à faire quelque chose.
- 3Obliger par quelque considération à s’abstenir de quelque chose, à se refuser quelque chose.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontraindre,cnotraindre,conntraindre,conrtaindre,contarindre,contraidnre,contrainddre,contrainder,contraindrre,contrainndre,contrainrde,contranidre,contriandre,contrraindre,conttraindre,cotnraindre,ocntraindre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contraindre
Misspelling Variants of "contraindre"
Frequency rank: #15,600 in French
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Nearby French words
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