contraint
\kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“contraint” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,540. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,540
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est gêné, forcé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contraint · contraint · French
contraint · rank #5,540 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,540
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conservateurs
Nearest frequency peer: conservateurs (-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 « contraint »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- colonisation
colonisation
94,465 corpus weight
- complot
complot
94,464 corpus weight
- conservateu…
conservateurs
94,462 corpus weight
- contraint
contraint
94,461 corpus weight
- contribue
contribue
94,460 corpus weight
- contrôles
contrôles
94,459 corpus weight
What this shows « contraint » 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 | contraint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contraint »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around contraint (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,540 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est gêné, forcé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for contraint, with forms such as "ccontraint", "cnotraint", and "conntraint". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "contrat", "contraire", "contrainte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contraint, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est gêné, forcé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contraint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne lui trouvai plus cette vivacité, ces brusques élans, cette rapide expression qui m’avaient tant plu en elle. Ses regards étaient lents, ses gestes contraints, son attitude morne.
L’empressement qu’elle mettait à nous être agréable et, comme elle disait, à « faciliter les choses », était si épais que nous restions le plus souvent, Alissa et moi, contraints et quasi muets devant elle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontraint
- cnotraint
- conntraint
- conrtaint
- contarint
- contrainnt
- contraintt
- contraitn
- contranit
- contriant
- contrraint
- conttraint
- cotnraint
- ocntraint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contraint - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).