contraste
\kɔ̃.tʁast\
The verdict
“contraste” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,674. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,674
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opposition de choses contraires, en particulier en termes de peinture, de sculpture, de littérature et de musique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contraste · contraste · French
contraste · rank #7,674 · 14 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,674
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consultant
Nearest frequency peer: consultant (-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 « contraste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constitutio…
constitutionnelle
92,329 corpus weight
- consultant
consultant
92,328 corpus weight
- contraste
contraste
92,327 corpus weight
- coureurs
coureurs
92,326 corpus weight
- creuser
creuser
92,325 corpus weight
- dangereuses
dangereuses
92,324 corpus weight
What this shows « contraste » 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 | contraste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁast\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contraste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around contraste (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁast\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,674 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Opposition de choses contraires, en particulier en termes de peinture, de sculpture, de littérature et de musique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for contraste, with forms such as "ccontraste", "cnotraste", and "conntraste". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "contrat", "contrats", "contrastée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 contraste, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Opposition de choses contraires, en particulier en termes de peinture, de sculpture, de littérature et de musique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contraste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le contraste que présentait son costume moitié castillan, moitié français, avait quelque chose de risible, ce qui n’empêchait pas le personnage d’affecter dans ses moindres gestes une gravité imposante.
Quant au second voyageur, il formait avec le premier venu un contraste complet.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontraste
- cnotraste
- conntraste
- conrtaste
- contarste
- contraset
- contrasste
- contrastte
- contratse
- contrraste
- contrsate
- conttraste
- cotnraste
- ocntraste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contraste - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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