contresens
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,541
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
contresens is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sens contraire au sens naturel d’une proposition, d’une phrase, etc. Pronounced \kɔ̃.tʁə.sɑ̃s\. Often confused with contrées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contresens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contresens is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁə.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,541 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for contresens, with forms such as "ccontresens", "cnotresens", and "conntresens". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "contrées", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 contresens, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-S-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sens contraire au sens naturel d’une proposition, d’une phrase, etc.
- 2Tout sens différent du sens véritable d’un texte.
- 3Toute manière de lire, de prononcer, de déclamer, etc., qui ne s’accorde pas avec le sens des paroles.
- 4Dans le code de la route français, ainsi que dans la législation belge, le sens opposé au sens de circulation des véhicules.
- 5En parlant d’étoffes, du linge et d’autres choses, sens contraire à celui où ils doivent être.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontresens,cnotresens,conntresens,conrtesens,contersens,contreesns,contresenns,contresenss,contresesn,contresnes,contressens,contrresens,contrseens,conttresens,cotnresens,ocntresens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "contresens"
Frequency rank: #30,541 in French
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