contredite
\kɔ̃.tʁə.dit\
The verdict
“contredite” is uncommon French (frequency #55,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,854
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de contredire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contredite · contredite · French
contredite · rank #55,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,854
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrariés
Nearest frequency peer: contrariés (-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 « contredite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contournent
contournent
44,150 corpus weight
- contradicte…
contradicteur
44,149 corpus weight
- contrariés
contrariés
44,148 corpus weight
- contredite
contredite
44,147 corpus weight
- Corbett
Corbett
44,146 corpus weight
- coupler
coupler
44,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contredite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contredite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.dit\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contredite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contredite is uncommon French at frequency #55,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.dit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de contredire.".
contredite doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 contredite, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-D-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de contredire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contredite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cosmographe, dont la science venait d’être aussi manifestement contredite, n’en parut pas ébranlé.
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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