contribuèrent
\kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛʁ\
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
- consolidées
consolidées
46,775 corpus weight
- constitutio…
constitutionnellement
46,774 corpus weight
- contrefaits
contrefaits
46,773 corpus weight
- contribuère…
contribuèrent
46,772 corpus weight
- Copacabana
Copacabana
46,771 corpus weight
- cordeau
cordeau
46,770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contribuèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contribuèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #53,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contribuèrent » en français
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
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de contribuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contribuèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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