conserver
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,817
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
conserver is aFrenchverb. It means: Maintenir en bon état ; apporter le soin nécessaire pour empêcher qu’une chose ne se gâte ou ne dépérisse. Pronounced \kɔ̃.sɛʁ.ve\. It ranks #2,817 in French word frequency. Often confused with conservés and converger.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conserver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɛʁ.ve\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for conserver is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.sɛʁ.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,817 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for conserver, with forms such as "cconserver", "cnoserver", and "conesrver". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "conservés", "converger", "converser", 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 conserver, spelled C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maintenir en bon état ; apporter le soin nécessaire pour empêcher qu’une chose ne se gâte ou ne dépérisse.
- 2Maintenir dans un certain état.
- 3Ne pas perdre, empêcher qu’une personne ou qu’une chose ne périsse.
- 4Assurer sa longévité en prenant beaucoup de soin de sa santé.
- 5Garder quelque chose, ne pas s’en défaire, ne pas y renoncer.
- 6Ne pas perdre ce qu’on a ; ne pas en être dépossédé ou privé.
- 7Conserver l’écoute : rester en ligne (au téléphone) ; quelques fois utilisé de manière intransitive.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconserver,cnoserver,conesrver,connserver,conserevr,conserrver,conserverr,conservre,conservver,consevrer,consrever,consserver,cosnerver,ocnserver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conserver
Misspelling Variants of "conserver"
Frequency rank: #2,817 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: