contre-rejet
\kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁə.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“contre-rejet” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Procédé consistant à placer en fin de vers un mot ou un groupe de mots appartenant, par la construction et le sens, au vers suivant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contre-rejet · contre-rejet · French
contre-rejet · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 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-rejet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁə.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contre-rejet” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
contre-rejet is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁə.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Procédé consistant à placer en fin de vers un mot ou un groupe de mots appartenant, par la construction et le sens, au vers suivant.".
contre-rejet has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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-rejet, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E---R-E-J-E-T.
Definition
- 1Procédé consistant à placer en fin de vers un mot ou un groupe de mots appartenant, par la construction et le sens, au vers suivant.
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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