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convert

/kənˈvɝt/verb, noun

convert is spelled C-O-N-V-E-R-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, convert means “To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in convert?

Letters7: C-O-N-V-E-R-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is convert?

Convert appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th 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 convert?

  • UK /kənˈvɜːt/
  • UK [kʰə̥ɱˈvɜːt]
  • US /kənˈvɝt/

As a noun (“A person who has converted to a religion”): /ˈkɒn.vət/, [ˈkʰɒɱ.vət], /ˈkɑn.vɚt/.

Convert has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-convert-verb.ogg, En-au-convert.ogg, En-us-convert-noun.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with convert?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as convert from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹt/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of convert

  • converts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • converting participle, present
  • converted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does convert mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

    A kettle converts water into steam.

  2. 2

    To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.

    He converted his garden into a tennis court.

  3. 3

    To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).

    They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.

  4. 4

    To exchange for something of equal value.

    We converted our pounds into euros.

  5. 5

    To express (a quantity) in alternative units.

  6. 6

    To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.

    How do you convert feet into metres?

  7. 7

    To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.

  8. 8

    To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.

noun

  1. 1

    A person who has converted to a religion.

    They were all converts to Islam.

  2. 2

    A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.

    I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!

  3. 3

    Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.

  4. 4

    The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Convert in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconvertir (transform (something) into another form…), reconverti (person who has converted to a religion)
Germankonvertieren, umwandeln (transform (something) into another form…), Konvertit (person who has converted to a religion)
Portugueseconverter, transformar, transmudar, mudar (transform (something) into another form…), converso, convertido (person who has converted to a religion)
Spanishconvertir (transform (something) into another form…), converso, neófito (person who has converted to a religion), convertirse (undergo a conversion of religion, faith or…), confeso (person in favour of something they previously…)

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 convert come from?

From Middle English converten, from Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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