un contre un
\œ̃ kɔ̃.tʁə œ̃\
The verdict
“un contre un” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Conflit entre deux personnes opposées, sans autres personnes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | un contre un |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \œ̃ kɔ̃.tʁə œ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “un contre un” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for un contre un is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œ̃ kɔ̃.tʁə œ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for un contre un in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is un contre un, spelled U-N- -C-O-N-T-R-E- -U-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conflit entre deux personnes opposées, sans autres personnes.
- 2Action dans un sport collectif impliquant un joueur à l'attaque et un défenseur, cherchant à l'empêcher de passer ou de marquer.
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Using “un contre un”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is U-N- -C-O-N-T-R-E- -U-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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