mécontenter
\me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“mécontenter” is uncommon French (frequency #82,257 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,257
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre mécontent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mecontenter · mécontenter · French
mécontenter · rank #82,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,257
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH myéline
Nearest frequency peer: myéline (-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 « mécontenter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mul
mul
17,747 corpus weight
- multiplière…
multiplièrent
17,746 corpus weight
- myéline
myéline
17,745 corpus weight
- mécontenter
mécontenter
17,744 corpus weight
- médicalisat…
médicalisation
17,743 corpus weight
- médisant
médisant
17,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mécontenter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mécontenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mécontenter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mécontenter is uncommon French at frequency #82,257 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rendre mécontent.".
mécontenter has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mécontenter, spelled M-É-C-O-N-T-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre mécontent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mécontenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vous amènerai peut-être une dame qui s’intéresse aux malades... Mais non, au fait ! celle qui vous héberge gratuitement vous a recommandé de ne recevoir personne… il faut éviter de la mécontenter, tant que vous serez chez elle…
Les parents eux-mêmes prenaient fait et cause contre leurs rejetons, ne voulant point mécontenter le Granger, un homme serviable.
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); 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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