contremaîtres
\kɔ̃.tʁə.mɛtʁ\
The verdict
“contremaîtres” is uncommon French (frequency #70,500 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,500
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contremaître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contremaitres · contremaîtres · French
contremaîtres · rank #70,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,500
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrepoints
Nearest frequency peer: contrepoints (+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 « contremaîtres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- concurrencée
concurrencée
29,504 corpus weight
- conjuguant
conjuguant
29,503 corpus weight
- contremaîtr…
contremaîtres
29,501 corpus weight
- contrepoints
contrepoints
29,500 corpus weight
- convertibil…
convertibilité
29,499 corpus weight
- cordelette
cordelette
29,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contremaîtres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contremaîtres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #70,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contremaîtres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contremaîtres is uncommon French at frequency #70,500 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.mɛtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de contremaître.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contremaîtres, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contremaîtres, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-M-A-Î-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contremaître.
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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