contre-plongée
\kɔ̃.tʁə.plɔ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“contre-plongée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de contreplongée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contre-plongee · contre-plongée · French
contre-plongée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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-plongée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.plɔ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
contre-plongée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.plɔ̃.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de contreplongée.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contre-plongée, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is contre-plongée, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E---P-L-O-N-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de contreplongée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contre-plongée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voyait surtout en contre-plongée tout un ballet de jambes si bronzées, les chaussures et les socquettes nimbées d’une poussière abricot.
Tandis que Lambert, qui avait garé sa Simca un peu plus loin, achevait de discuter avec un homme en bleu de chauffe, Hélène braqua son appareil vers la hauteur, choisissant spontanément l'angle le plus écrasant, la contre-plongée maximale.
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.