conquête

\kɔ̃.kɛt\

/\kɔ̃.kɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“conquête” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,656. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,656
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de conquérir ; la chose conquise elle-même.

Corpus desk

Index FR-conquete · conquête · French

conquête · rank #4,656 · 12 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,656
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH conclu

Nearest frequency peer: conclu (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « conquête »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « conquête » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

conquête vs coquet
63% similar
conquête vs consulté
63% similar
conquête vs conquise
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for conquête
PropertyValue
Headwordconquête
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃.kɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,656
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « conquête »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).conquêtese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « conclu » (#4,655), « consultation » (#4,657), « clientèle » (#4,654). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « conquête » est au #4,656. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around conquête (IPA \kɔ̃.kɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,656 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for conquête, with forms such as "cconquête", "cnoquête", and "connquête". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "coquet", "consulté", "conquise", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 conquête, spelled C-O-N-Q-U-Ê-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de conquérir ; la chose conquise elle-même.
  2. 2
    Prise de possession, par les armes (1759-1760) puis par traité (1763), du territoire de la Nouvelle-France par l'Empire britannique. → voir Conquête
  3. 3
    Action de séduire, en parlant de l’amour, de la sympathie, voire, comme dans le sens 1, la personne séduite elle-même.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Avant la conquête française, la Kabylie ne connaissait pas d'autre mode de répression que la vengeance privée et les Kabyles n'étaient pas de mauvaises gens.
  2. Depuis sa conquête par César et jusqu'à la fin du Vᵉ siècle, la Gaule n'a été qu'une terre romaine, entièrement latinisée et son histoire se confond avec celle de Rome.

Synonyms

invasionsubjugationséduction

This word in other languages

conquest(English)conquista(Español)Eroberung(Deutsch)conquista(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconquête
  • cnoquête
  • connquête
  • conqquête
  • conquete
  • conqutêe
  • conquêet
  • conquêtte
  • conqêute
  • conuqête
  • coqnuête
  • ocnquête

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conquête - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cconquête1cnoquête2connquête1conqquête1conquete1conqutêe2conquêet2conquêtte1
Edit distance from "conquête"

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 "conquête"?
"conquête" is spelled C-O-N-Q-U-Ê-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.kɛt\.
What does "conquête" mean?
As a noun, "conquête" means: Action de conquérir ; la chose conquise elle-même.
What words are commonly confused with "conquête"?
"conquête" is commonly confused with "coquet", "consulté", "conquise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "conquête"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conquête" is \kɔ̃.kɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conquête" come from?
"conquête" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

descente#4,662arrivera#4,643fontaine#4,671féminine#4,674

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

accusation12 variantshôpitaux12 variantsinstance12 variantssondages12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list