# convert

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈkɒn.vət/ · frequency rank #5,949

## Definitions
1. To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
2. To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
3. To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
4. To exchange for something of equal value.
5. To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
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.
7. To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
8. To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
9. To score extra points following a touchdown.
10. To score (especially a penalty kick).
11. To score a spare.
12. To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
13. To become converted.
14. To cause to turn; to turn.
15. To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
16. To turn into another language; to translate.
17. To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
18. To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
19. To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *wert-
Proto-Indo-European *wértetor
Proto-Italic *wertō
Proto-Italic *komwertō
Latin convertōder.
Old French convertirbor.
Middle English converten
English convert
From Middle English converten, from Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).

## Easily confused with
- **cover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-cover)
- **covet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-covet)
- **covers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-covers)
- **convey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-convey)
- **covert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-covert)
- **convex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-convex)
- **covent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-covent)
- **convict** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-convict)
- **conveys** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-conveys)
- **Conyers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-conyers)
- **culvert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-culvert)
- **converts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-converts)
- **converted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-converted)
- **converter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/convert-vs-converter)
- **confer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/confer-vs-convert)
- **content** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/content-vs-convert)
- **concept** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concept-vs-convert)
- **concern** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concern-vs-convert)
- **context** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/context-vs-convert)
- **concert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/concert-vs-convert)

## Common misspellings (11)
`cconvert`, `cnovert`, `conevrt`, `connvert`, `converrt`, `convertt`, `convetr`, `convret`, `convvert`, `covnert`, `ocnvert`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/convert