convainquit

\kɔ̃.vɛ̃.ki\

/\kɔ̃.vɛ̃.ki\/ verb

The verdict

“convainquit” is uncommon French (frequency #79,182 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,182
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de convaincre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-convainquit · convainquit · French

convainquit · rank #79,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,182
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH contondant

Nearest frequency peer: contondant (-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 « convainquit »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for convainquit
PropertyValue
Headwordconvainquit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.vɛ̃.ki\
Letters11
Frequency rank#79,182
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « convainquit » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).convainquittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « contondant » (#79,181), « consommera » (#79,180), « coproducteur » (#79,184). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « convainquit » est au #79,182. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

convainquit is uncommon French at frequency #79,182 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.vɛ̃.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de convaincre.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for convainquit, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is convainquit, spelled C-O-N-V-A-I-N-Q-U-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de convaincre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cet assaut d’humilité ne convainquit pas le peintre, et ce fut en taxi que les deux hommes, les toiles, le chevalet, etc., firent leur entrée dans le passage.
  2. Il se convainquit que si Nathalie n’était pas pourvue des attraits de Madame Pavin, elle en avait que des yeux avisés savaient peser et priser, plus clairvoyants que les siens qu’il urgeait de décataracter.

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 "convainquit"?
"convainquit" is spelled C-O-N-V-A-I-N-Q-U-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.vɛ̃.ki\.
What does "convainquit" mean?
As a verb, "convainquit" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de convaincre.
How do you pronounce "convainquit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "convainquit" is \kɔ̃.vɛ̃.ki\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list