contrebandiers
\kɔ̃t.ʁə.bɑ̃.dje\
The verdict
“contrebandiers” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,723
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contrebandier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrebandiers · contrebandiers · French
contrebandiers · rank #39,723 · 22 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,723
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contest
Nearest frequency peer: contest (-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 « contrebandiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conseilles
conseilles
60,281 corpus weight
- consternant
consternant
60,280 corpus weight
- contest
contest
60,279 corpus weight
- contrebandi…
contrebandiers
60,278 corpus weight
- convaincant…
convaincantes
60,277 corpus weight
- coriaces
coriaces
60,276 corpus weight
What this shows « contrebandiers » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrebandiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃t.ʁə.bɑ̃.dje\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #39,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrebandiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around contrebandiers (IPA \kɔ̃t.ʁə.bɑ̃.dje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,723 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contrebandier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrebandiers, with forms such as "ccontrebandiers", "cnotrebandiers", and "conntrebandiers". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 contrebandiers, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-B-A-N-D-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contrebandier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contrebandiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand ses parents font l’apologie de la simplicité aussi, lui donnent ses cousins en exemple, quand ils critiquent les ambitieux, les parvenus, ceux qui exhibent leur réussite, quand ils vantent le mérite des bosseurs, des manuels, des bricolos, des débrouillards, de ceux qui passent entre les gouttes, mamailleurs et autres contrebandiers du jour le jour.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrebandiers
- cnotrebandiers
- conntrebandiers
- conrtebandiers
- conterbandiers
- contrbeandiers
- contreabndiers
- contrebadniers
- contrebanddiers
- contrebandeirs
- contrebandierrs
- contrebandierss
- contrebandiesr
- contrebandires
- contrebaniders
- contrebanndiers
- contrebbandiers
- contrebnadiers
- contrrebandiers
- conttrebandiers
- cotnrebandiers
- ocntrebandiers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrebandiers - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).