contrat
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#919
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
contrat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Convention (même non écrite) entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, plus précisément entre un ou plusieurs créanciers et un ou plusieurs débiteurs, ayant pour effet de créer entre elles une obligation ... Pronounced \kɔ̃.tʁa\. It ranks #919 in French word frequency. Often confused with contre and contrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contrat is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #919 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for contrat, with forms such as "ccontrat", "cnotrat", and "conntrat". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "contre", "contrer", "control", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is contrat, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Convention (même non écrite) entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, plus précisément entre un ou plusieurs créanciers et un ou plusieurs débiteurs, ayant pour effet de créer entre elles une obligation (obligation conventionnelle).
- 2Convention (même non écrite) entre deux ou plusieurs personnes, plus précisément entre un ou plusieurs créanciers et un ou plusieurs débiteurs, ayant pour effet de créer entre elles une obligation (obligation conventionnelle).
- 3Acte qui enregistre cette convention.
- 4Commande visant à faire assassiner quelqu'un.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontrat,cnotrat,conntrat,conrtat,contart,contratt,contrrat,contrta,conttrat,cotnrat,ocntrat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "contrat"
Frequency rank: #919 in French
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