contribuèrent

\kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛʁ\

/\kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“contribuèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #53,229 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,229
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de contribuer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-contribuerent · contribuèrent · French

contribuèrent · rank #53,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,229
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH contrefaits

Nearest frequency peer: contrefaits (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « contribuèrent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contribuèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for contribuèrent
PropertyValue
Headwordcontribuèrent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛʁ\
Letters13
Frequency rank#53,229
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « contribuèrent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.contribuèrenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « contrefaits » (#53,228), « Copacabana » (#53,230), « constitutionnellement » (#53,227). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « contribuèrent » est au #53,229. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

contribuèrent is uncommon French at frequency #53,229 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de contribuer.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contribuèrent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is contribuèrent, spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-È-R-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de contribuer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how contribuèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle, Karamzine avait imposé à l’opposition conservatrice un Shakespeare d’après Le Tourneur, très sentimental et « schillerisé » ; malgré les coupures de la censure, des représentations des grandes tragédies, traduites de Ducis, contribuèrent sous Alexandre Iᵉʳ à la lutte contre l’influence française.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contribuèrent"?
"contribuèrent" is spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-È-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛʁ\.
What does "contribuèrent" mean?
As a verb, "contribuèrent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de contribuer.
How do you pronounce "contribuèrent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "contribuèrent" is \kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contribuèrent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list