contrariété
\kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁje.te\
The verdict
“contrariété” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,809. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,809
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opposition entre des choses contraires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrariete · contrariété · French
contrariété · rank #47,809 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,809
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contraceptifs
Nearest frequency peer: contraceptifs (-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 « contrariété »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constatez
constatez
52,195 corpus weight
- contactent
contactent
52,194 corpus weight
- contracepti…
contraceptifs
52,193 corpus weight
- contrariété
contrariété
52,192 corpus weight
- contreplaqué
contreplaqué
52,191 corpus weight
- convertibles
convertibles
52,190 corpus weight
What this shows « contrariété » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrariété |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁje.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #47,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrariété »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around contrariété (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁje.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,809 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrariété, with forms such as "ccontrariété", "cnotrariété", and "conntrariété". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "contrarie", "contrainte", "contrarier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contrariété, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-R-I-É-T-É.
Definition
- 1Opposition entre des choses contraires.
- 2Action de s’opposer aux autres en paroles ou en actes.
- 3Obstacle qui empêche d’agir ou d’aboutir.
- 4Déplaisir, mauvaise humeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrariété appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Contrariété d’humeurs. — Contrariété de desseins, d’opinions, de sentiments.
Son front, ridé par une contrariété violente, avait quelque chose de fatal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrariété
- cnotrariété
- conntrariété
- conrtariété
- contarriété
- contrairété
- contrariete
- contraritéé
- contrariétté
- contrariéét
- contrarriété
- contraréité
- contrraiété
- contrrariété
- conttrariété
- cotnrariété
- ocntrariété
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrariété - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).