conseil
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#352
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
conseil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Avis que l’on donne à quelqu’un sur ce qu’il doit faire ou ne pas faire. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sɛj\. It ranks #352 in French word frequency. Often confused with consul and Corbeil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conseil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɛj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for conseil is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɛj\. Corpus data places it at rank #352 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for conseil, with forms such as "cconseil", "cnoseil", and "conesil". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "consul", "Corbeil", "consent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 conseil, spelled C-O-N-S-E-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avis que l’on donne à quelqu’un sur ce qu’il doit faire ou ne pas faire.
- 2Ce qui nous détermine à faire ou à ne pas faire quelque chose, en parlant des choses, des passions, etc., qui nous portent, qui nous animent.
- 3Résolution, parti.
- 4Vues, principes qui dirigent une personne.
- 5Conseils évangéliques
- 6Personne dont on prend conseil
- 7Assemblée permanente ou réunion extraordinaire, instituée ou convoquée pour délibérer, pour donner son avis sur certaines matières.
- 8Séances d’un conseil ; lieu où siège un conseil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconseil,cnoseil,conesil,connseil,conseill,conseli,consiel,consseil,cosneil,ocnseil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conseil
Misspelling Variants of "conseil"
Frequency rank: #352 in French
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