congru

/\kɔ̃.ɡʁy\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Language

French

word origin

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congru is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui convient, qui s’adapte exactement à ce qu’on veut exprimer. Pronounced \kɔ̃.ɡʁy\.

Key facts for congru
PropertyValue
Headwordcongru
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\kɔ̃.ɡʁy\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

congru is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for congru is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.ɡʁy\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for congru in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 congru, spelled C-O-N-G-R-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui convient, qui s’adapte exactement à ce qu’on veut exprimer.
  2. 2
    Qui a un rapport de congruence : dont la différence avec un autre nombre est divisible par un troisième.
  3. 3
    Se dit de côtés ou d'angles qui ont la même mesure, ou de figures identiques (même forme, même taille, mais dont la position n'est pas forcément la même).
  4. 4
    Qualifie une grâce proportionnée à l'acte de vertu à accomplir.
  5. 5
    Se disait de la rétribution que les gros décimateurs versaient aux curés qui accomplissaient leurs fonctions ecclésiastiques en leur lieu et place. D'où portion congrue.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "congru"?
"congru" is spelled C-O-N-G-R-U. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.ɡʁy\.
What does "congru" mean?
As an adj, "congru" means: Qui convient, qui s’adapte exactement à ce qu’on veut exprimer.
How do you pronounce "congru"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "congru" is \kɔ̃.ɡʁy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "congru" come from?
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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.