contre-argument
\kɔ̃.tʁaʁ.ɡy.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“contre-argument” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Argument construit pour s’opposer à un raisonnement, à un argument donné par quelqu’un d’autre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contre-argument |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁaʁ.ɡy.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contre-argument” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contre-argument is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁaʁ.ɡy.mɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Argument construit pour s’opposer à un raisonnement, à un argument donné par quelqu’un d’autre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contre-argument, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is contre-argument, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E---A-R-G-U-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Argument construit pour s’opposer à un raisonnement, à un argument donné par quelqu’un d’autre.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “contre-argument”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-T-R-E---A-R-G-U-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ̃.tʁaʁ.ɡy.mɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.