conifère

\kɔ.ni.fɛʁ\

/\kɔ.ni.fɛʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“conifère” is uncommon French (frequency #91,552 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,552
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui porte des cônes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-conifere · conifère · French

conifère · rank #91,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,552
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH concéda

Nearest frequency peer: concéda (-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 « conifère »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « conifère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for conifère
PropertyValue
Headwordconifère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\kɔ.ni.fɛʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#91,552
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « conifère » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.conifèretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « concéda » (#91,551), « conjonctive » (#91,553), « comptiez » (#91,550). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « conifère » est au #91,552. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

conifère is uncommon French at frequency #91,552 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ.ni.fɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui porte des cônes.".

conifère doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is conifère, spelled C-O-N-I-F-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui porte des cônes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how conifère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’air plus frais qu’on y respirait, les ondulations des crêtes recouvertes de verdure et d’arbres conifères, nous donnaient l’espoir d’avoir à suivre désormais des chemins moins pénibles.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "conifère"?
"conifère" is spelled C-O-N-I-F-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ.ni.fɛʁ\.
What does "conifère" mean?
As an adjective, "conifère" means: Qui porte des cônes.
How do you pronounce "conifère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conifère" is \kɔ.ni.fɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conifère" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "conifère", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list