concile

/\kɔ̃.sil\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,624

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

concile is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblée légitimement convoquée de plusieurs évêques et docteurs de l’Église catholique romaine, pour délibérer et décider sur des questions de doctrine et de discipline. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sil\. It ranks #9,624 in French word frequency. Often confused with conclu and confie.

Key facts for concile
PropertyValue
Headwordconcile
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.sil\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,624
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of concile in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for concile is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sil\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,624 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for concile, with forms such as "cconcile", "cnocile", and "cocnile". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "conclu", "confie", "conçue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is concile, spelled C-O-N-C-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assemblée légitimement convoquée de plusieurs évêques et docteurs de l’Église catholique romaine, pour délibérer et décider sur des questions de doctrine et de discipline.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des décrets et des canons rédigés dans un concile.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconcile,cnocile,cocnile,conccile,conciel,concille,conclie,conicle,conncile,ocncile

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for concile

Misspelling Variants of "concile"

cconcile8cnocile7cocnile7conccile8conciel7concille8conclie7conicle7
Misspelling Variants of "concile"

Frequency rank: #9,624 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "concile"?
"concile" is spelled C-O-N-C-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.sil\.
What does "concile" mean?
As a noun, "concile" means: Assemblée légitimement convoquée de plusieurs évêques et docteurs de l’Église catholique romaine, pour délibérer et décider sur des questions de doctrine et de discipline.
What words are commonly confused with "concile"?
"concile" is commonly confused with "conclu", "confie", "conçue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "concile"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "concile" is \kɔ̃.sil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "concile" come from?
"concile" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.