conifère
\kɔ.ni.fɛʁ\
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
- comptabilis…
comptabilisent
8,452 corpus weight
- comptiez
comptiez
8,451 corpus weight
- concéda
concéda
8,450 corpus weight
- conifère
conifère
8,449 corpus weight
- conjonctive
conjonctive
8,448 corpus weight
- conspirent
conspirent
8,446 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « conifère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conifère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.ni.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « conifère » en français
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
- 1Qui porte des cônes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how conifère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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