contreventement
\kɔ̃.tʁə.vɑ̃t.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“contreventement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément de structure assurant la résistance d’une construction à des forces qui s’exercent horizontalement et sont dues notamment au vent, aux chocs et aux secousses sismiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contreventement · contreventement · French
contreventement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 | contreventement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁə.vɑ̃t.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contreventement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contreventement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁə.vɑ̃t.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contreventement, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is contreventement, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-V-E-N-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Élément de structure assurant la résistance d’une construction à des forces qui s’exercent horizontalement et sont dues notamment au vent, aux chocs et aux secousses sismiques.
- 2Action de contreventer.
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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.