contrepoints
\kɔ̃.tʁə.pwɛ̃\
The verdict
“contrepoints” is uncommon French (frequency #70,501 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,501
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de contrepoint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrepoints · contrepoints · French
contrepoints · rank #70,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,501
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contremaîtres
Nearest frequency peer: contremaîtres (-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 « contrepoints »
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 « contrepoints » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrepoints |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.pwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrepoints » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrepoints is uncommon French at frequency #70,501 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.pwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de contrepoint.".
contrepoints has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contrepoints, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-P-O-I-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de contrepoint.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).