conflit

/\kɔ̃.fli\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,071

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

conflit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lutte armée, combat entre deux ou plusieurs personnes ou puissances qui se disputent un droit. Pronounced \kɔ̃.fli\. It ranks #2,071 in French word frequency. Often confused with connaît and confort.

Key facts for conflit
PropertyValue
Headwordconflit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.fli\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,071
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for conflit is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.fli\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,071 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for conflit, with forms such as "cconflit", "cnoflit", and "cofnlit". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "connaît", "confort", "conflits", 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 conflit, spelled C-O-N-F-L-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lutte armée, combat entre deux ou plusieurs personnes ou puissances qui se disputent un droit.
  2. 2
    Violente opposition de sentiments, d’opinions, d’intérêts.
  3. 3
    Expression d’exigences internes inconciliables, telles que désirs et représentations opposés, et plus spécifiquement de forces pulsionnelles antagonistes.
  4. 4
    opposition d’intérêts.
  5. 5
    Incompatibilité.
  6. 6
    Tentative de modification simultanée par plusieurs utilisateurs, qui aboutit à un rejet par le logiciel.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconflit,cnoflit,cofnlit,confflit,confilt,conflitt,confllit,conflti,conlfit,connflit,ocnflit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conflit

Misspelling Variants of "conflit"

cconflit8cnoflit7cofnlit7confflit8confilt7conflitt8confllit8conflti7
Misspelling Variants of "conflit"

Frequency rank: #2,071 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "conflit"?
"conflit" is spelled C-O-N-F-L-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fli\.
What does "conflit" mean?
As a noun, "conflit" means: Lutte armée, combat entre deux ou plusieurs personnes ou puissances qui se disputent un droit.
What words are commonly confused with "conflit"?
"conflit" is commonly confused with "connaît", "confort", "conflits". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "conflit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conflit" is \kɔ̃.fli\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conflit" come from?
"conflit" 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.