construire

/\kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\/ verb

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,698

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

construire is aFrenchverb. It means: Bâtir, élever, avec de la pierre, du bois, du métal, etc., d’après un plan déterminé. Pronounced \kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\. It ranks #1,698 in French word frequency. Often confused with contraire and construit.

Key facts for construire
PropertyValue
Headwordconstruire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,698
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of construire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for construire is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,698 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 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for construire, with forms such as "cconstruire", "cnostruire", and "connstruire". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "contraire", "construit", "construis", 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 construire, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bâtir, élever, avec de la pierre, du bois, du métal, etc., d’après un plan déterminé.
  2. 2
    Faire, créer suivant un ensemble rationnel et harmonieux.
  3. 3
    Tracer.
  4. 4
    Disposer en suivant les règles et l’usage de la syntaxe.
  5. 5
    Arranger, disposer toutes les parties d’un poème, d’une pièce de théâtre.
  6. 6
    Disposer suivant un ordre.
  7. 7
    Créer un programme exécutable en le compilant à partir des sources.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconstruire,cnostruire,connstruire,consrtuire,consstruire,constriure,constrruire,construier,construirre,construrie,consttruire,consturire,contsruire,cosntruire,ocnstruire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for construire

Misspelling Variants of "construire"

cconstruire11cnostruire10connstruire11consrtuire10consstruire11constriure10constrruire11construier10
Misspelling Variants of "construire"

Frequency rank: #1,698 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "construire"?
"construire" is spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\.
What does "construire" mean?
As a verb, "construire" means: Bâtir, élever, avec de la pierre, du bois, du métal, etc., d’après un plan déterminé.
What words are commonly confused with "construire"?
"construire" is commonly confused with "contraire", "construit", "construis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "construire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "construire" is \kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "construire" come from?
"construire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.