contribution
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,244
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
contribution is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce que chacun donne pour sa part d’une dépense ou d’une charge commune. Pronounced \kɔ̃.tʁi.by.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,244 in French word frequency. Often confused with contributions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contribution |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁi.by.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #3,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for contribution is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.tʁi.by.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,244 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for contribution, with forms such as "ccontribution", "cnotribution", and "conntribution". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "contributions", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is contribution, spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce que chacun donne pour sa part d’une dépense ou d’une charge commune.
- 2Tribut que paient les habitants d’un pays occupé par l’ennemi pour se garantir du pillage ou de la répression. → voir contribution de guerre.
- 3Ensemble des impôts et taxes levés par l’État ou une autorité publique.
- 4Participation, apport, concours ou collaboration à une œuvre collective, intellectuelle ou scientifique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontribution,cnotribution,conntribution,conrtibution,contirbution,contrbiution,contribbution,contribtuion,contribuiton,contributino,contributionn,contributoin,contributtion,contriubtion,contrribution,conttribution,cotnribution,ocntribution
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contribution
Misspelling Variants of "contribution"
Frequency rank: #3,244 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: