contrebas
\kɔ̃.tʁə.bɑ\
The verdict
“contrebas” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,951
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie basse. → voir en contrebas
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrebas · contrebas · French
contrebas · rank #25,951 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,951
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conçois
Nearest frequency peer: conçois (+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 « contrebas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contractuel
contractuel
74,053 corpus weight
- contrarier
contrarier
74,052 corpus weight
- contrebas
contrebas
74,050 corpus weight
- conçois
conçois
74,049 corpus weight
- coordonnate…
coordonnateur
74,048 corpus weight
- coordonne
coordonne
74,047 corpus weight
What this shows « contrebas » 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 | contrebas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.bɑ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrebas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around contrebas (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁə.bɑ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,951 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrebas, with forms such as "ccontrebas", "cnotrebas", and "conntrebas". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "contrées", "contredis", "contrebasse", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 contrebas, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-B-A-S.
Definition
- 1Partie basse. → voir en contrebas
- 2Un des types d'obstacle figurant dans les courses de steeple-chase.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrebas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ensemble est bâti en position dominante sur le haut d’un talus qui regarde le contrebas oriental de la montagne.
Le contrebas s’aborde au trot, avec des jambes vigilantes, car certains chevaux sont surpris par le vide.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrebas
- cnotrebas
- conntrebas
- conrtebas
- conterbas
- contrbeas
- contreabs
- contrebass
- contrebbas
- contrebsa
- contrrebas
- conttrebas
- cotnrebas
- ocntrebas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrebas - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).