contrescarpe
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,975
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
contrescarpe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie de l'enceinte comprenant le mur extérieur du fossé et le glacis qui le prolonge. Pronounced \kɔ̃.tʁɛs.kaʁp\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contrescarpe is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁɛs.kaʁp\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,975 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Partie de l'enceinte comprenant le mur extérieur du fossé et le glacis qui le prolonge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for contrescarpe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is contrescarpe, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-S-C-A-R-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie de l'enceinte comprenant le mur extérieur du fossé et le glacis qui le prolonge.
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Frequency rank: #51,975 in French
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