contravention
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,246
in French word usage
Misspellings
20
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
contravention is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de contrevenir à une loi, à une ordonnance, à un règlement, à un décret ou à un contrat qu’on a fait. Pronounced \kɔ̃.tʁa.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with contraventions and contraception.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contravention |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁa.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #19,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contravention is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁa.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,246 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for contravention, with forms such as "ccontravention", "cnotravention", and "conntravention". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "contraventions", "contraception", 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 contravention, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-V-E-N-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de contrevenir à une loi, à une ordonnance, à un règlement, à un décret ou à un contrat qu’on a fait.
- 2Dans la législation pénale, action de contrevenir aux règlements de police ; par opposition aux délits et aux crimes.
- 3Procès-verbal fait par la police de cet acte contraire aux règlements, en particulier le code de la route, auquel est souvent jointe une injonction de payer.
- 4Amende versée à la police.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontravention,cnotravention,conntravention,conrtavention,contarvention,contraevntion,contraveniton,contravenntion,contraventino,contraventionn,contraventoin,contraventtion,contravetnion,contravnetion,contravvention,contrravention,contrvaention,conttravention,cotnravention,ocntravention
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contravention
Misspelling Variants of "contravention"
Frequency rank: #19,246 in French
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