contrescarpe
\kɔ̃.tʁɛs.kaʁp\
The verdict
“contrescarpe” is uncommon French (frequency #51,975 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,975
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de l'enceinte comprenant le mur extérieur du fossé et le glacis qui le prolonge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrescarpe · contrescarpe · French
contrescarpe · rank #51,975 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,975
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conférencière
Nearest frequency peer: conférencière (-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 « contrescarpe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conditionné…
conditionnées
48,029 corpus weight
- confortent
confortent
48,028 corpus weight
- conférenciè…
conférencière
48,027 corpus weight
- contrescarpe
contrescarpe
48,026 corpus weight
- contrôlable
contrôlable
48,025 corpus weight
- coproduit
coproduit
48,023 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contrescarpe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrescarpe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛs.kaʁp\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrescarpe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrescarpe is uncommon French at frequency #51,975 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁɛs.kaʁp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie de l'enceinte comprenant le mur extérieur du fossé et le glacis qui le prolonge.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for contrescarpe, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 contrescarpe, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-S-C-A-R-P-E.
Definition
- 1Partie de l'enceinte comprenant le mur extérieur du fossé et le glacis qui le prolonge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrescarpe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout au plus essaierait-on de dégager la partie antérieure de l'enceinte, de manière à former un fossé dont la contrescarpe protégerait encore la palissade.
Le mur de contrescarpe était haut et paraissait difficile à escalader.
This word in other languages
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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