convenient
con·ve·nient/kənˈvi.njənt/adjective
convenient is spelled C-O-N-V-E-N-I-E-N-T, 3 syllables: con·ve·nient. The wrong spelling people search most is convienent: about 460 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Convenient is an adjective meaning “Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient”.
How many letters and syllables are in convenient?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-V-E-N-I-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: con·ve·nient |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 5; the most searched, convienent, about 460 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell convenient?
Convenient is spelled C-O-N-V-E-N-I-E-N-T. 5 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for convenient in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is convenient?
Convenient appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce convenient?
- UK /kənˈviː.niənt/
- US /kənˈvi.njənt/
- Australia /kənˈviː.niənt/
Convenient has 3 syllables, split con·ve·nient in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-convenient.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of convenient
- more convenient comparative
- most convenient superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does convenient mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy.
- 2
Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.
- 3
obsoleteFit; suitable; appropriate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Convenient in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | commode, pratique, convénient |
| German | bequem, einfach, gelegen, genehm, günstig, passend |
| Portuguese | conveniente, cómodo, cômodo |
| Spanish | conveniente, cómodo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does convenient come from?
From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniēns (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of conveniō, convinīre (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).