contrition
\kɔ̃t.ʁi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“contrition” is uncommon French (frequency #53,872 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,872
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de celui, de celle, qui est contrit, qui est plein de regrets pour ses péchés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contrition · contrition · French
contrition · rank #53,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,872
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consommons
Nearest frequency peer: consommons (-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 « contrition »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conduisirent
conduisirent
46,133 corpus weight
- consommez
consommez
46,131 corpus weight
- consommons
consommons
46,130 corpus weight
- contrition
contrition
46,129 corpus weight
- corpo
corpo
46,127 corpus weight
- corrélé
corrélé
46,126 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contrition » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃t.ʁi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrition » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrition is uncommon French at frequency #53,872 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃t.ʁi.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contrition, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 contrition, spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1État de celui, de celle, qui est contrit, qui est plein de regrets pour ses péchés.
- 2État psychologique d'une personne qui, quoique sans motif religieux, ressent une responsabilité et veut corriger des erreurs passées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contrition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec des soupirs de contrition, le précepteur avoua le repentir dont il était pénétré pour avoir ouvert les portes de la préceptorerie à Rébecca et à son amant.
Malgré lui, M. Hyacinthe, saisi par le mystère du lieu, parle bas comme s’il énumérait avec contrition une longue suite de péchés tous mortels.
Synonyms
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); 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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