confites
\kɔ̃.fit\
The verdict
“confites” is uncommon French (frequency #74,675 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,675
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de confit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confites · confites · French
confites · rank #74,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,675
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conjoncturels
Nearest frequency peer: conjoncturels (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « confites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- compliquant
compliquant
25,330 corpus weight
- conceptrice
conceptrice
25,328 corpus weight
- confites
confites
25,326 corpus weight
- conjoncture…
conjoncturels
25,325 corpus weight
- connected
connected
25,324 corpus weight
- contactées
contactées
25,323 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « confites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « confites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
confites is uncommon French at frequency #74,675 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.fit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de confit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for confites in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is confites, spelled C-O-N-F-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de confit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kabis (de kabasa : comprimer) désigne les légumes confits en saumure : par exemple, en parlant des tomates confites, on dit kabis banadiira ou banadiira makbiise.
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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