contre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#109
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
contre is aFrenchprep. It means: En opposition à ; dans un choc avec ; à l’encontre de. Pronounced \kɔ̃tʁ\. It ranks #109 in French word frequency. Often confused with côte and core.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \kɔ̃tʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contre is 6 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃tʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #109 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for contre, with forms such as "ccontre", "cnotre", and "conntre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "côte", "core", "coûte", 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 contre, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En opposition à ; dans un choc avec ; à l’encontre de.
- 2Malgré, sans avoir égard à ; en dépit de.
- 3Auprès de, proche de, à côté de.
- 4À comparer avec. Note : s’emploie uniquement pour établir un contraste entre des chiffres.
- 5Indique le rapport entre une somme misée et le gain escompté en cas de réussite.
- 6En échange de
- 7Indique une direction.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontre,cnotre,conntre,conrte,contrre,conttre,cotnre,ocntre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contre
Misspelling Variants of "contre"
Frequency rank: #109 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: