contrevenant
\kɔ̃.tʁəv.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“contrevenant” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,224
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui contrevient, qui agit contre l’ordre établi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrevenant · contrevenant · French
contrevenant · rank #38,224 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,224
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contentez
Nearest frequency peer: contentez (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrevenant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contaminati…
contaminations
61,779 corpus weight
- contentez
contentez
61,778 corpus weight
- contrevenant
contrevenant
61,777 corpus weight
- convenables
convenables
61,776 corpus weight
- converties
converties
61,775 corpus weight
- convertisse…
convertissent
61,774 corpus weight
What this shows « contrevenant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrevenant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁəv.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #38,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrevenant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around contrevenant (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁəv.nɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,224 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui contrevient, qui agit contre l’ordre établi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrevenant, with forms such as "ccontrevenant", "cnotrevenant", and "conntrevenant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "contrevenants", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is contrevenant, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-V-E-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui contrevient, qui agit contre l’ordre établi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrevenant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les contrevenants aux lois du servage et les criminels encouraient de sévères punitions : de 100 à 1000 coups de fouet, selon l’offense ; amputation de main, de jambe ou des yeux pour les crimes les plus graves.
Si les prisons sont remplies, c’est par les contrevenants à l’article 19, autrement dit par les immigrés clandestins ; nous ne parlons pas d’immigrés clandestins qui auraient « fait quelque chose », mais d’individus arrêtés et jugés pour la seule infraction à la police des étrangers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrevenant
- cnotrevenant
- conntrevenant
- conrtevenant
- contervenant
- contreevnant
- contreveannt
- contrevenannt
- contrevenantt
- contrevenatn
- contrevennant
- contrevennat
- contrevneant
- contrevvenant
- contrrevenant
- contrveenant
- conttrevenant
- cotnrevenant
- ocntrevenant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrevenant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).