contrairement
\kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“contrairement” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,949
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En opposition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrairement · contrairement · French
contrairement · rank #1,949 · 20 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,949
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH défaut
Nearest frequency peer: défaut (+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 « contrairement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chiffre
chiffre
98,055 corpus weight
- comte
comte
98,054 corpus weight
- contraireme…
contrairement
98,052 corpus weight
- défaut
défaut
98,051 corpus weight
- enfance
enfance
98,050 corpus weight
- estime
estime
98,049 corpus weight
What this shows « contrairement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrairement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #1,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrairement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around contrairement (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #1,949 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "En opposition.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrairement, with forms such as "ccontrairement", "cnotrairement", and "conntrairement". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 contrairement, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-I-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1En opposition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrairement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; mais, contrairement à toutes les idées reçues, Durtal ne pensait pas que le mépris de l’argent impliquât nécessairement la folie […].
Or les écheveaux à numéroter à Tourcoing sont généralement d'un dévidage difficile, contrairement à ce qui se passe à Roubaix.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrairement
- cnotrairement
- conntrairement
- conrtairement
- contarirement
- contraierment
- contraireemnt
- contrairemennt
- contrairementt
- contrairemetn
- contrairemment
- contrairemnet
- contrairmeent
- contrairrement
- contrariement
- contriarement
- contrrairement
- conttrairement
- cotnrairement
- ocntrairement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrairement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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