contrastés
\kɔ̃.tʁas.te\
The verdict
“contrastés” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,574. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,574
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de contrasté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrastes · contrastés · French
contrastés · rank #49,574 · 17 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,574
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH continuel
Nearest frequency peer: continuel (-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 « contrastés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contemplatif
contemplatif
50,430 corpus weight
- contentée
contentée
50,429 corpus weight
- continuel
continuel
50,428 corpus weight
- contrastés
contrastés
50,427 corpus weight
- convenues
convenues
50,426 corpus weight
- Cornouaille
Cornouaille
50,424 corpus weight
What this shows « contrastés » 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 | contrastés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁas.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #49,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrastés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around contrastés (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁas.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,574 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de contrasté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrastés, with forms such as "ccontrastés", "cnotrastés", and "conntrastés". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "contrats", "contraste", "contactés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contrastés, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-S-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de contrasté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contrastés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il connait mal ses compatriotes, pas du tout les Noirs et les Arabes, il a rencontré des Juifs candides et désintéressés, il n’a pas parcouru assez de pays pour décider quelle nation possède les paysages les plus contrastés, il ne lui semble pas tellement logique, aujourd’hui, que les gouvernements brûlent ou coulent au fond des mers des récoltes entiè…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrastés
- cnotrastés
- conntrastés
- conrtastés
- contarstés
- contrasstés
- contrastes
- contrastsé
- contrasttés
- contrastéss
- contraséts
- contratsés
- contrrastés
- contrsatés
- conttrastés
- cotnrastés
- ocntrastés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrastés - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).