mécontent
\me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“mécontent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,204. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,204
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insatisfait de quelque chose ou de quelqu'un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mecontent · mécontent · French
mécontent · rank #20,204 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,204
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mécaniquement
Nearest frequency peer: mécaniquement (-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 « mécontent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- moyennement
moyennement
79,800 corpus weight
- multipliant
multipliant
79,799 corpus weight
- mécaniqueme…
mécaniquement
79,798 corpus weight
- mécontent
mécontent
79,797 corpus weight
- nageur
nageur
79,796 corpus weight
- narines
narines
79,795 corpus weight
What this shows « mécontent » 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 | mécontent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mécontent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around mécontent (IPA \me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,204 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Insatisfait de quelque chose ou de quelqu'un.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for mécontent, with forms such as "mcéontent", "mecontent", and "mmécontent". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "montent", "mentent", "mécontents", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mécontent, spelled M-É-C-O-N-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Insatisfait de quelque chose ou de quelqu'un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mécontent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne suis pas mécontent de moi-même, je suis assez content de ce que j’ai fait.
Elle était mécontente comme une actrice qui a manqué son rôle, car cette douleur lui attaquait toutes les fibres, le cœur et la tête.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mcéontent
- mecontent
- mmécontent
- méccontent
- mécnotent
- méconetnt
- méconntent
- mécontennt
- mécontentt
- mécontetn
- mécontnet
- méconttent
- mécotnent
- méocntent
- émcontent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mécontent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "mécontent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).