contrepied
\kɔ̃.tʁə.pje\
The verdict
“contrepied” is uncommon French (frequency #65,810 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,810
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Direction prise par les chiens qui n’est plus celle que suit la bête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrepied · contrepied · French
contrepied · rank #65,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,810
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrefort
Nearest frequency peer: contrefort (-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 « contrepied »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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34,195 corpus weight
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34,194 corpus weight
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34,193 corpus weight
- contrefort
contrefort
34,192 corpus weight
- contrepied
contrepied
34,191 corpus weight
- cordero
cordero
34,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contrepied » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrepied |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.pje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrepied » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrepied is uncommon French at frequency #65,810 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
contrepied doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 contrepied, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-P-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Direction prise par les chiens qui n’est plus celle que suit la bête.
- 2Contraire de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrepied appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chiens avaient pris le contrepied du cerf, du sanglier.
Dieu sait de quelles peccadilles tu te confessais ! et il n’est pas une seule des Béatitudes dont tu n’aies passé ta vie à prendre le contrepied.
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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