contribua
\kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥa\
The verdict
“contribua” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,021
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contribuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contribua · contribua · French
contribua · rank #27,021 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,021
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constituants
Nearest frequency peer: constituants (-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 « contribua »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conseillent
conseillent
72,983 corpus weight
- conservatri…
conservatrices
72,982 corpus weight
- constituants
constituants
72,981 corpus weight
- contribua
contribua
72,980 corpus weight
- corollaire
corollaire
72,979 corpus weight
- courtage
courtage
72,978 corpus weight
What this shows « contribua » 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 | contribua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contribua »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around contribua (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,021 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contribuer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for contribua, with forms such as "ccontribua", "cnotribua", and "conntribua". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "contribue", "contribuer", "contribuant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is contribua, spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contribuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contribua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous roulions beaucoup, mais sans recevoir de coups de mer ; la précaution que j’avais pris de filer de l’huile contribua à nous maintenir dans de bonnes conditions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontribua
- cnotribua
- conntribua
- conrtibua
- contirbua
- contrbiua
- contribau
- contribbua
- contriuba
- contrribua
- conttribua
- cotnribua
- ocntribua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contribua - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contribua", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).