contrefacteur
\kɔ̃t.ʁə.fak.tœʁ\
The verdict
“contrefacteur” is uncommon French (frequency #96,782 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,782
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui est coupable de contrefaçon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrefacteur · contrefacteur · French
contrefacteur · rank #96,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,782
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contingente
Nearest frequency peer: contingente (-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 « contrefacteur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consumption
consumption
3,222 corpus weight
- contentieus…
contentieuses
3,221 corpus weight
- contingente
contingente
3,220 corpus weight
- contrefacte…
contrefacteur
3,219 corpus weight
- contrefacte…
contrefacteurs
3,218 corpus weight
- controlled
controlled
3,217 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contrefacteur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrefacteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃t.ʁə.fak.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #96,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrefacteur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrefacteur is uncommon French at frequency #96,782 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃t.ʁə.fak.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui est coupable de contrefaçon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contrefacteur, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contrefacteur, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-F-A-C-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui est coupable de contrefaçon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrefacteur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a été puni comme contrefacteur.
Un contrefacteur doit certainement avoir le droit de se défendre devant le tribunal du pays où il est supposé avoir commis cette violation.
This word in other languages
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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