contrats
\kɔ̃.tʁa\
The verdict
“contrats” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,990. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,990
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contrat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrats · contrats · French
contrats · rank #2,990 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,990
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conclusion
Nearest frequency peer: conclusion (-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 « contrats »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chercheurs
chercheurs
97,014 corpus weight
- combats
combats
97,013 corpus weight
- conclusion
conclusion
97,012 corpus weight
- contrats
contrats
97,011 corpus weight
- contrôler
contrôler
97,010 corpus weight
- corse
corse
97,009 corpus weight
What this shows « contrats » 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 | contrats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrats »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around contrats (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,990 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contrat.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrats, with forms such as "ccontrats", "cnotrats", and "conntrats". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "contrées", "contrat", "contacts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contrats, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contrat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contrats appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les contrats autres que celui d’affrètement, auxquels peut donner lieu la mise en charge du navire, sont au nombre de deux : le premier est le contrat de pacotille, par lequel une personne donne à une autre embarquée sur un navire une certaine quantité de marchandises pour les vendre ou échanger au lieu de destination du navire, aux meilleures conditions…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrats
- cnotrats
- conntrats
- conrtats
- contarts
- contrast
- contratss
- contratts
- contrrats
- contrtas
- conttrats
- cotnrats
- ocntrats
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrats - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).