contrarient
\kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi\
The verdict
“contrarient” is uncommon French (frequency #95,741 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,741
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contrarier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrarient · contrarient · French
contrarient · rank #95,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,741
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constriction
Nearest frequency peer: constriction (-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 « contrarient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conspiratio…
conspirationnisme
4,264 corpus weight
- constriction
constriction
4,261 corpus weight
- contrarient
contrarient
4,260 corpus weight
- contredits
contredits
4,259 corpus weight
- contrefaites
contrefaites
4,258 corpus weight
- contributri…
contributrice
4,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contrarient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrarient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrarient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrarient is uncommon French at frequency #95,741 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contrarient, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is contrarient, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-R-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contrarier.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de contrarier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contrarient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart des mères, pour donner à leurs filles une certaine beauté de convention, contrarient en elles les lois physiologiques de croissance et en font à quinze ans des femmes déjà mûres, qui seront, hélas ! flétries à trente ans et infirmes à quarante, tandis que, d’après les lois naturelles, la femme doit achever sa croissance à vingt ans, s’invigoris…
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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