mécontents
\me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“mécontents” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,261
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de mécontent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mecontents · mécontents · French
mécontents · rank #18,261 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,261
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH motrices
Nearest frequency peer: motrices (-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 « mécontents »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- moquent
moquent
81,743 corpus weight
- moraux
moraux
81,742 corpus weight
- motrices
motrices
81,741 corpus weight
- mécontents
mécontents
81,740 corpus weight
- Naomi
Naomi
81,739 corpus weight
- naturaliste
naturaliste
81,738 corpus weight
What this shows « mécontents » 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 | mécontents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mécontents »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around mécontents (IPA \me.kɔ̃.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,261 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de mécontent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for mécontents, with forms such as "mcéontents", "mecontents", and "mmécontents". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "mécontent", "mécontente", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mécontents, spelled M-É-C-O-N-T-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de mécontent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mécontents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas de revendications, ni d’interpellations ad nominem ^([sic : ad hominem]) : pendant une heure, le successeur de Jean-Michel Blanquer a nagé dans la bienveillance, passant d’un stand à un autre sans avoir à gérer le comportement imprévisible de professeurs insatisfaits, voire mécontents.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mcéontents
- mecontents
- mmécontents
- méccontents
- mécnotents
- méconetnts
- méconntents
- mécontennts
- mécontenst
- mécontentss
- mécontentts
- mécontetns
- mécontnets
- méconttents
- mécotnents
- méocntents
- émcontents
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mécontents - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "mécontents", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).