contrairement à
\kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ.mɑ̃ a\
The verdict
“contrairement à” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Par opposition à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrairement-a · contrairement à · French
contrairement à · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrairement à |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ.mɑ̃ a\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrairement à » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrairement à is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as apreposition, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ.mɑ̃ a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Par opposition à.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contrairement à, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is contrairement à, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-I-R-E-M-E-N-T- -À.
Definition
- 1Par opposition à.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.