vent contraire
\vɑ̃ kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“vent contraire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vent opposé à la route que l’on veut faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vent-contraire · vent contraire · French
vent contraire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | vent contraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɑ̃ kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
vent contraire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɑ̃ kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vent contraire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vent contraire, spelled V-E-N-T- -C-O-N-T-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Vent opposé à la route que l’on veut faire.
- 2Événement malheureux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vent contraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Serait-ce quelque vent contraire qui m’aurait détourné de ma course ?
Alors que la chancelière Angela Merkel vient d’annoncer son retrait progressif de la vie politique, une série de vents contraires soufflent depuis l’été sur la conjoncture germanique.
Synonyms
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.