concupiscible
\kɔ̃.ky.pi.sibl\
The verdict
“concupiscible” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la concupiscence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concupiscible · concupiscible · French
concupiscible · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concupiscible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ky.pi.sibl\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
concupiscible is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.ky.pi.sibl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la concupiscence.".
No misspelling variants are generated for concupiscible in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 concupiscible, spelled C-O-N-C-U-P-I-S-C-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la concupiscence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how concupiscible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans doute les deux premières « pensées », gourmandise et fornication, se rattachent-elles, de toute évidence, à la partie concupiscible.
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