contredisant
\kɔ̃.tʁə.di.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“contredisant” is uncommon French (frequency #58,523 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,523
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime à contredire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contredisant · contredisant · French
contredisant · rank #58,523 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,523
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH continuelles
Nearest frequency peer: continuelles (-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 « contredisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consistante
consistante
41,481 corpus weight
- consommaient
consommaient
41,480 corpus weight
- continuelles
continuelles
41,479 corpus weight
- contredisant
contredisant
41,478 corpus weight
- cooking
cooking
41,477 corpus weight
- coordonnatr…
coordonnatrice
41,476 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contredisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contredisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.di.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contredisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contredisant is uncommon French at frequency #58,523 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.di.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui aime à contredire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contredisant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is contredisant, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-D-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui aime à contredire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contredisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un esprit contredisant. - Il a l’humeur contredisante.
Un de ses médecins étant doué de l'esprit de contradiction et de taquinerie, dès que Bergotte, le voyant en l'absence des autres et pour ne pas le froisser, lui soumettait comme des idées de lui ce que les autres lui avaient conseillé, le médecin contredisant, croyant que Bergotte cherchait à se faire ordonner quelque chose qui lui plaisait, le lui défend…
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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