contrebande
\kɔ̃.tʁə.bɑ̃d\
The verdict
“contrebande” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,339. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,339
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passage en fraude de marchandise, importation ou exportation clandestines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrebande · contrebande · French
contrebande · rank #15,339 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,339
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contenues
Nearest frequency peer: contenues (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrebande »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conceptions
conceptions
84,665 corpus weight
- conduisait
conduisait
84,664 corpus weight
- contenues
contenues
84,663 corpus weight
- contrebande
contrebande
84,662 corpus weight
- controle
controle
84,661 corpus weight
- convertis
convertis
84,659 corpus weight
What this shows « contrebande » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrebande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.bɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrebande »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around contrebande (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁə.bɑ̃d\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,339 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrebande, with forms such as "ccontrebande", "cnotrebande", and "conntrebande". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "contrebasse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is contrebande, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-B-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Passage en fraude de marchandise, importation ou exportation clandestines.
- 2Marchandises qui sont ainsi passées en fraude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrebande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin l’acte d’Algésiras, en créant un comité des douanes et une commission des valeurs douanières, édictait un règlement douanier et des tarifs nouveaux et ordonnait toutes les mesures propres à contrecarrer la fraude et la contrebande.
Malgré la contrebande qui s’exerce ouvertement comme tout autre négoce, et le plus souvent par des transactions avec les employés du fisc, la douane de Cadiz était une des plus productives.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrebande
- cnotrebande
- conntrebande
- conrtebande
- conterbande
- contrbeande
- contreabnde
- contrebadne
- contrebandde
- contrebaned
- contrebannde
- contrebbande
- contrebnade
- contrrebande
- conttrebande
- cotnrebande
- ocntrebande
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrebande - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).