convalescents
\kɔ̃.va.lɛ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“convalescents” is uncommon French (frequency #76,457 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,457
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de convalescent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-convalescents · convalescents · French
convalescents · rank #76,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,457
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contemplent
Nearest frequency peer: contemplent (-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 « convalescents »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conquistado…
conquistadors
23,547 corpus weight
- consultait
consultait
23,546 corpus weight
- contemplent
contemplent
23,545 corpus weight
- convalescen…
convalescents
23,544 corpus weight
- conviviaux
conviviaux
23,543 corpus weight
- coquillettes
coquillettes
23,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « convalescents » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convalescents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.va.lɛ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #76,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « convalescents » en français
Rare enough to double-check
convalescents is uncommon French at frequency #76,457 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.va.lɛ.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de convalescent.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for convalescents in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is convalescents, spelled C-O-N-V-A-L-E-S-C-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de convalescent.
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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