contre-intuitivement
\kɔ̃.tʁ‿ɛ̃.tɥi.tiv.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“contre-intuitivement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière contre-intuitive. Pas intuitivement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contre-intuitivement · contre-intuitivement · French
contre-intuitivement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contre-intuitivement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁ‿ɛ̃.tɥi.tiv.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
contre-intuitivement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁ‿ɛ̃.tɥi.tiv.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière contre-intuitive. Pas intuitivement.".
contre-intuitivement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contre-intuitivement, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E---I-N-T-U-I-T-I-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière contre-intuitive. Pas intuitivement.
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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.