convention
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,357
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
convention is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de convenir, accord, pacte. Pronounced \kɔ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #2,357 in French word frequency. Often confused with conviction and conversion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convention |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for convention is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,357 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 convention, with forms such as "cconvention", "cnovention", and "conevntion". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "conviction", "conversion", "conventions", 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 convention, spelled C-O-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de convenir, accord, pacte.
- 2Clause ; condition.
- 3Ce qui est convenu, ce qui résulte d’un pacte implicite, par opposition à ce qui résulte des lois mêmes de la nature ou de la force des choses.
- 4Accord tacite par lequel on admet certaines fictions, certains procédés qui s’éloignent de la réalité, mais qui paraissent indispensables pour produire l’effet voulu.
- 5Assemblée nationale formée pour établir une constitution, ou pour la changer, la modifier, etc.
- 6L'assemblée nationale qui se réunit à Paris au mois de septembre 1792 et qui exerça tous les pouvoirs jusqu’en octobre 1795. → voir Convention
- 7Rassemblement organisé par un parti politique américain afin de choisir son candidat à l’élection présidentielle.
- 8Rassemblement thématique servant de lieu de rencontre entre les professionnels d’un milieu et un public.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconvention,cnovention,conevntion,connvention,conveniton,convenntion,conventino,conventionn,conventoin,conventtion,convetnion,convnetion,convvention,covnention,ocnvention
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for convention
Misspelling Variants of "convention"
Frequency rank: #2,357 in French
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