contrebalance
\kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“contrebalance” is uncommon French (frequency #81,024 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,024
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de contrebalancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrebalance · contrebalance · French
contrebalance · rank #81,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,024
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contraignit
Nearest frequency peer: contraignit (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « contrebalance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- considered
considered
18,980 corpus weight
- consultera
consultera
18,979 corpus weight
- contraignit
contraignit
18,978 corpus weight
- contrebalan…
contrebalance
18,977 corpus weight
- contro
contro
18,976 corpus weight
- coopérants
coopérants
18,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contrebalance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrebalance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #81,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrebalance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrebalance is uncommon French at frequency #81,024 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.lɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contrebalance, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contrebalance, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-B-A-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de contrebalancer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de contrebalancer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de contrebalancer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de contrebalancer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de contrebalancer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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