contrepoids
French, noun/kɔ̃.tʁə.pwa/
contrepoids is spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-P-O-I-D-S (11 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 30,103rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrepoids is a French masculine noun meaning “counterweight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poids servant à contrebalancer une force opposée ou à en modérer l’action”.
What does contrepoids mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecounterweight
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poids servant à contrebalancer une force opposée ou à en modérer l’action. 2. Ce qui sert à contrebalancer des affections, des qualités bonnes ou mauvaises, et en général de toutes les choses morales, politiques, etc., qui servent à en contrebalancer d’autres.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of contrepoids
- contre-poids
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contrepoids?
- /kɔ̃.tʁə.pwa/
- \kɔ̃t.ʁə.pwa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to contrepoids
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contrepoids in French?
contrepoids appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).