contrepoison
\kɔ̃.tʁə.pwa.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“contrepoison” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remède qui empêche l’effet du poison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrepoison · contrepoison · French
contrepoison · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrepoison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.pwa.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrepoison » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrepoison is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.pwa.zɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Remède qui empêche l’effet du poison.".
contrepoison has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 contrepoison, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-P-O-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Remède qui empêche l’effet du poison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrepoison appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Vous ne connaissez pas d’autre contrepoison ? — Je n’en connais pas.
Et pourtant cette Odette d’où lui venait tout ce mal, ne lui était pas moins chère, bien au contraire plus précieuse, comme si au fur et à mesure que grandissait la souffrance, grandissait en même temps le prix du calmant, du contrepoison que seule cette femme possédait.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.