contrôlons
\kɔ̃.tʁo.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“contrôlons” is uncommon French (frequency #66,614 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,614
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contrôler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-controlons · contrôlons · French
contrôlons · rank #66,614 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,614
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contribuez
Nearest frequency peer: contribuez (-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 « contrôlons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- confirmeront
confirmeront
33,391 corpus weight
- contenterait
contenterait
33,389 corpus weight
- contribuez
contribuez
33,388 corpus weight
- contrôlons
contrôlons
33,387 corpus weight
- convergents
convergents
33,386 corpus weight
- copieur
copieur
33,384 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contrôlons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrôlons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁo.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contrôlons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contrôlons is uncommon French at frequency #66,614 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁo.lɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for contrôlons in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contrôlons, spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contrôler.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de contrôler.
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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