conscrit

\kɔ̃s.kʁi\

/\kɔ̃s.kʁi\/ noun

The verdict

“conscrit” is uncommon French (frequency #69,710 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,710
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne appelée, par voie de conscription, au service militaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-conscrit · conscrit · French

conscrit · rank #69,710 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,710
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH consentantes

Nearest frequency peer: consentantes (+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 « conscrit »

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 « conscrit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for conscrit
PropertyValue
Headwordconscrit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃s.kʁi\
Letters8
Frequency rank#69,710
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « conscrit » en français

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « consentantes » (#69,711), « concluons » (#69,708), « conspirateur » (#69,712). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « conscrit » est au #69,710. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

conscrit is uncommon French at frequency #69,710 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃s.kʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for conscrit in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is conscrit, spelled C-O-N-S-C-R-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne appelée, par voie de conscription, au service militaire.
  2. 2
    Personne née la même année.
  3. 3
    Homme inexpérimenté.
  4. 4
    Élève de première année à l’École polytechnique.
  5. 5
    Élève de première année dans les écoles d’Arts et Métiers Paristech (anc. ENSAM).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […], et quand arriva le jour du tirage, le jeudi matin, j’étais tellement pâle, tellement défait, que les parents de conscrits enviaient en quelque sorte ma mine pour leur fils.
  2. Bras dessus, bras dessous, des bandes joyeuses de conscrits passaient, traînant leurs sabots sur le pavé des rues. Nous sommes trois pauv’ conscrits De l’an mil huit cent dix, Ils nous font tirer au sort, tirer au sort Pour nous conduire à la mort.

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 "conscrit"?
"conscrit" is spelled C-O-N-S-C-R-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃s.kʁi\.
What does "conscrit" mean?
As a noun, "conscrit" means: Personne appelée, par voie de conscription, au service militaire.
How do you pronounce "conscrit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conscrit" is \kɔ̃s.kʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conscrit" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "conscrit", 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