contredise
\kɔ̃.tʁə.diz\
The verdict
“contredise” is uncommon French (frequency #81,916 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,916
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de contredire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contredise · contredise · French
contredise · rank #81,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,916
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrastait
Nearest frequency peer: contrastait (-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 « contredise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consumée
consumée
18,088 corpus weight
- continued
continued
18,087 corpus weight
- contrastait
contrastait
18,086 corpus weight
- contredise
contredise
18,085 corpus weight
- conventionn…
conventionnellement
18,084 corpus weight
- cordées
cordées
18,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contredise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contredise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.diz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contredise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contredise is uncommon French at frequency #81,916 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.diz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contredise, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contredise, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-D-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de contredire.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de contredire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contredise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous ne supportez aucun retard, encore moins que l’on vous contredise.
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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