contrôlent
\kɔ̃.tʁol\
The verdict
“contrôlent” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,233. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,233
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contrôler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-controlent · contrôlent · French
contrôlent · rank #14,233 · 17 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,233
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH continental
Nearest frequency peer: continental (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrôlent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constituait
constituait
85,771 corpus weight
- consécration
consécration
85,770 corpus weight
- continental
continental
85,769 corpus weight
- contrôlent
contrôlent
85,768 corpus weight
- cost
cost
85,767 corpus weight
- couvertes
couvertes
85,765 corpus weight
What this shows « contrôlent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrôlent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁol\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « contrôlent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around contrôlent (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁol\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,233 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrôlent, with forms such as "ccontrôlent", "cnotrôlent", and "conntrôlent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "contrôler", "contrôles", "contrôlez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 contrôlent, spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contrôler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de contrôler.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrôlent
- cnotrôlent
- conntrôlent
- conrtôlent
- contrlôent
- controlent
- contrrôlent
- contrôelnt
- contrôlennt
- contrôlentt
- contrôletn
- contrôllent
- contrôlnet
- conttrôlent
- contôrlent
- cotnrôlent
- ocntrôlent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contrôlent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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