contrindication
\kɔ̃t.ʁɛ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“contrindication” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indication qui est contraire à l’emploi de tel ou tel moyen qui paraissait indiqué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrindication · contrindication · French
contrindication · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | contrindication |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃t.ʁɛ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
contrindication is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃t.ʁɛ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Indication qui est contraire à l’emploi de tel ou tel moyen qui paraissait indiqué.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contrindication, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 contrindication, spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-N-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Indication qui est contraire à l’emploi de tel ou tel moyen qui paraissait indiqué.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrindication appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des contrindications.
Les infiltrations ou ulcérations étendues à une grande partie de l’organe ne sont pas une contrindication à une thérapeutique active par le galvano.
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.