convivial
/kənˈvɪv.i.əl/
"convivial" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“convivial” is an uncommon English word, ranked #59,981 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #59,981
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convivial |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kənˈvɪv.i.əl/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “convivial” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for convivial is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kənˈvɪv.i.əl/. Corpus data places it at rank #59,981 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity".
convivial doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French convivial, from Latin convīvium (“a feast”), combined form of con- (“together”) + vīvō (“to live”). The correct English form is convivial, spelled C-O-N-V-I-V-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity
Etymology
Borrowed from French convivial, from Latin convīvium (“a feast”), combined form of con- (“together”) + vīvō (“to live”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “convivial”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-V-I-V-I-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.