contrefaçons
\kɔ̃.tʁə.fa.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“contrefaçons” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,880
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contrefaçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrefacons · contrefaçons · French
contrefaçons · rank #35,880 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,880
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contentera
Nearest frequency peer: contentera (-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 « contrefaçons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consulats
consulats
64,124 corpus weight
- consultées
consultées
64,123 corpus weight
- contentera
contentera
64,122 corpus weight
- contrefaçons
contrefaçons
64,121 corpus weight
- contremaître
contremaître
64,120 corpus weight
- contumace
contumace
64,119 corpus weight
What this shows « contrefaçons » 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 | contrefaçons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.fa.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #35,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrefaçons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around contrefaçons (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁə.fa.sɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,880 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de contrefaçon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrefaçons, with forms such as "ccontrefaçons", "cnotrefaçons", and "conntrefaçons". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "contrefaçon", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is contrefaçons, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-F-A-Ç-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contrefaçon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contrefaçons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Méfiez vous des contrefaçons Me ROBENOIRE n'existe pas, il n'est pas avocat au @BarreauBx https://web.archive.org/web/20171208234505/http://robenoire-avocat-bordeaux.fr/
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrefaçons
- cnotrefaçons
- conntrefaçons
- conrtefaçons
- conterfaçons
- contreafçons
- contrefacons
- contrefaoçns
- contrefaçnos
- contrefaçonns
- contrefaçonss
- contrefaçosn
- contreffaçons
- contrefçaons
- contrfeaçons
- contrrefaçons
- conttrefaçons
- cotnrefaçons
- ocntrefaçons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrefaçons - 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).