concupiscence
\kɔ̃.ky.pi.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“concupiscence” is an uncommon French word, ranked #75,529 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #75,529
- frequency rank, French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Envie, inclination violente aux plaisirs qui sont interdits par les moralistes, surtout aux plaisirs sexuels.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concupiscence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ky.pi.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #75,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “concupiscence” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for concupiscence is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.ky.pi.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,529 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Envie, inclination violente aux plaisirs qui sont interdits par les moralistes, surtout aux plaisirs sexuels.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for concupiscence, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is concupiscence, spelled C-O-N-C-U-P-I-S-C-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Envie, inclination violente aux plaisirs qui sont interdits par les moralistes, surtout aux plaisirs sexuels.
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-C-U-P-I-S-C-E-N-C-E - 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.