contre-révolutionnaire
\kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁe.vɔ.ly.sjɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“contre-révolutionnaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est favorable à la contre-révolution, qui tend à la contre-révolution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contre-revolutionnaire · contre-révolutionnaire · French
contre-révolutionnaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-10 10 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-révolutionnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁe.vɔ.ly.sjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
contre-révolutionnaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁe.vɔ.ly.sjɔ.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contre-révolutionnaire, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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-révolutionnaire, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E---R-É-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est favorable à la contre-révolution, qui tend à la contre-révolution.
- 2Qui veut détruire les évolutions politiques, sociales et civiles postérieures à la Révolution française.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contre-révolutionnaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après qu’elle eut signé sa déposition, on lui avait annoncé qu’elle serait renvoyée à la frontière pour "activités contre-révolutionnaires et antibolcheviques".
Sans désemparer, nous avons pris à partie celles de ces congrégations qui s'adonnaient à l'enseignement et qui, par un enseignement de doctrines contre-révolutionnaires, battaient en brèche l'édifice républicain.
This word in other languages
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.