convalescent
\kɔ̃.va.le.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“convalescent” is uncommon French (frequency #62,167 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,167
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en convalescence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-convalescent · convalescent · French
convalescent · rank #62,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,167
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contrefait
Nearest frequency peer: contrefait (-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 « convalescent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consœur
consœur
37,837 corpus weight
- contracture
contracture
37,836 corpus weight
- contrefait
contrefait
37,835 corpus weight
- convalescent
convalescent
37,834 corpus weight
- copeau
copeau
37,833 corpus weight
- corrélés
corrélés
37,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « convalescent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convalescent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.va.le.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « convalescent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
convalescent is uncommon French at frequency #62,167 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.va.le.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est en convalescence.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for convalescent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is convalescent, spelled C-O-N-V-A-L-E-S-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est en convalescence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how convalescent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis bien aise de vous savoir convalescent. - Il est encore convalescent.
This word in other languages
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.
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