contrexemple
\kɔ̃.tʁɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\
The verdict
“contrexemple” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exemple spécifique et concret qui prouve le contraire d’une affirmation, d’une règle générale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrexemple · contrexemple · French
contrexemple · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | contrexemple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrexemple » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrexemple is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exemple spécifique et concret qui prouve le contraire d’une affirmation, d’une règle générale.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contrexemple, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 contrexemple, spelled C-O-N-T-R-E-X-E-M-P-L-E.
Definition
- 1Exemple spécifique et concret qui prouve le contraire d’une affirmation, d’une règle générale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contrexemple appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans développer pour une énième fois les avantages liés à l’engagement sur le prix et sur le délai et sans revenir non plus sur les contrexemples, il nous semble important d’envisager ces montages principalement sur le terrain des engagements de performance.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.