contralto
\kɔ̃.tʁal.to\
The verdict
“contralto” is uncommon French (frequency #92,583 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,583
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La plus grave des voix de femme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contralto · contralto · French
contralto · rank #92,583 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,583
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contacterons
Nearest frequency peer: contacterons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « contralto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- construiront
construiront
7,420 corpus weight
- contacterons
contacterons
7,419 corpus weight
- contralto
contralto
7,418 corpus weight
- convertissez
convertissez
7,417 corpus weight
- Corcelles
Corcelles
7,416 corpus weight
- corcovado
corcovado
7,415 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contralto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contralto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁal.to\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contralto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contralto is uncommon French at frequency #92,583 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁal.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "La plus grave des voix de femme.".
contralto has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contralto, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-L-T-O.
Definition
- 1La plus grave des voix de femme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contralto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous connaissez quelqu’une de ces voix harmonieuses et mâles qui rappellent en un registre plus grave le contralto de la femme.
Il atteint des régions qu’il avait jusque-là réservées à ses grandes œuvres chorales, telles que le Requiem allemand et la Rhapsodie pour contralto, à laquelle il est impossible de ne pas associer ce diptyque.
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); 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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