contrainte
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,332
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
contrainte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Violence qu’on exerce contre quelqu’un, pour l’obliger à faire quelque chose malgré lui ou pour l’empêcher de faire ce qu’il voudrait. Pronounced \kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃t\. It ranks #5,332 in French word frequency. Often confused with contraire and contraste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrainte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contrainte is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,332 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for contrainte, with forms such as "ccontrainte", "cnotrainte", and "conntrainte". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "contraire", "contraste", "contraints", and more, 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 contrainte, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-I-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Violence qu’on exerce contre quelqu’un, pour l’obliger à faire quelque chose malgré lui ou pour l’empêcher de faire ce qu’il voudrait.
- 2État de celui à qui on fait cette violence.
- 3Retenue que le respect, la considération, ou quelque autre cause, obligent d’avoir.
- 4Tout acte par lequel on force quelqu’un à faire ou à donner une chose.
- 5Mandement, exécutoire décerné par l’administration du fisc contre son débiteur.
- 6Condition à satisfaire.
- 7Résultat des efforts internes qui naissent dans un objet lorsqu’on le déforme : contrainte mécanique.
- 8Règle de gestion qui réduit la liberté d'action sur une table ou un champ de la base de donnée.
- 9Équation ou inéquation qui restreint le domaine où on cherche à optimiser la fonction objectif.
- 10Contrainte volontaire pour la créativité. À relever tel un défi ou pour lutter contre la page blanche. l'OuLiPo parle de contrainte libératoire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontrainte,cnotrainte,conntrainte,conrtainte,contarinte,contrainet,contrainnte,contraintte,contraitne,contranite,contriante,contrrainte,conttrainte,cotnrainte,ocntrainte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contrainte
Misspelling Variants of "contrainte"
Frequency rank: #5,332 in French
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