contumélieux
\kɔ̃.ty.me.ljø\
The verdict
“contumélieux” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui offense, qui outrage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contumelieux · contumélieux · French
contumélieux · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 | contumélieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ty.me.ljø\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
contumélieux is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.ty.me.ljø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui offense, qui outrage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contumélieux, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 contumélieux, spelled C-O-N-T-U-M-É-L-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui offense, qui outrage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how contumélieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne veux pas disputer de l'usage des serviteurs, à qui nous sommes si superbes, si cruels, si contumélieux.
Mais cette vindicte courrouça très âprement et survint un nombreux renfort de chicanes et démêlés contumélieux qui se déduisirent au plus grand dommage de l’Évêque grâce à la malignité rapace des officiers du Roi.
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.