contredisent
\kɔ̃.tʁə.diz\
The verdict
“contredisent” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,540. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,540
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de contredire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contredisent · contredisent · French
contredisent · rank #30,540 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,540
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contracte
Nearest frequency peer: contracte (-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 « contredisent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consommant
consommant
69,464 corpus weight
- conter
conter
69,463 corpus weight
- contracte
contracte
69,462 corpus weight
- contredisent
contredisent
69,461 corpus weight
- contresens
contresens
69,460 corpus weight
- convexe
convexe
69,459 corpus weight
What this shows « contredisent » 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 | contredisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.diz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #30,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contredisent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around contredisent (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁə.diz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,540 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for contredisent, with forms such as "ccontredisent", "cnotredisent", and "conntredisent". 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, "contrevient", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 contredisent, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-D-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de contredire.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de contredire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontredisent
- cnotredisent
- conntredisent
- conrtedisent
- conterdisent
- contrdeisent
- contreddisent
- contrediesnt
- contredisennt
- contredisentt
- contredisetn
- contredisnet
- contredissent
- contredsient
- contreidsent
- contrredisent
- conttredisent
- cotnredisent
- ocntredisent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contredisent - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).