controverse
\kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁs\
The verdict
“controverse” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,830. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,830
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Débat sur une question, sur une opinion, etc. suscité par des avis divergents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-controverse · controverse · French
controverse · rank #8,830 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,830
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrepartie
Nearest frequency peer: contrepartie (-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 « controverse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conquérir
conquérir
91,174 corpus weight
- conservatoi…
conservatoire
91,173 corpus weight
- contrepartie
contrepartie
91,172 corpus weight
- controverse
controverse
91,171 corpus weight
- Cooper
Cooper
91,170 corpus weight
- coutume
coutume
91,169 corpus weight
What this shows « controverse » 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 | controverse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #8,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « controverse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around controverse (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,830 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 controverse, with forms such as "ccontroverse", "cnotroverse", and "conntroverse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "controversée", "controversés", "controversées", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 controverse, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Débat sur une question, sur une opinion, etc. suscité par des avis divergents.
- 2Dispute qui a pour objet des points de foi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how controverse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Assemblée de Versailles […] consuma toute une année en controverses stériles, en discussions puériles, en luttes bysantines.
Malgré les controverses de l’entre-deux-guerres, sous la pression de la laïcisation en cours des affaires publiques, la plupart des sociétés ont rechigné à abandonner l'idée que l’État représente un système décrété par Dieu, pour le salut des hommes dans ce monde et dans l'autre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontroverse
- cnotroverse
- conntroverse
- conrtoverse
- contorverse
- controevrse
- controveres
- controverrse
- controversse
- controvesre
- controvrese
- controvverse
- contrroverse
- contrvoerse
- conttroverse
- cotnroverse
- ocntroverse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of controverse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "controverse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).