contrefacteurs
\kɔ̃t.ʁə.fak.tœʁ\
The verdict
“contrefacteurs” is uncommon French (frequency #96,783 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,783
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contrefacteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrefacteurs · contrefacteurs · French
contrefacteurs · rank #96,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,783
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrefacteur
Nearest frequency peer: contrefacteur (-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 « contrefacteurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- conviant
conviant
3,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contrefacteurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrefacteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃t.ʁə.fak.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #96,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrefacteurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrefacteurs is uncommon French at frequency #96,783 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃t.ʁə.fak.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de contrefacteur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contrefacteurs, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 contrefacteurs, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-F-A-C-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contrefacteur.
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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