convers
French, adjective/kɔ̃.vɛʁ/
convers is spelled C-O-N-V-E-R-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Convers is a French adjective meaning “lay (not of the clergy)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui était employé aux œuvres serviles d’un monastère”.
What does convers mean in English?
adjective
- 1
lay (not of the clergy)
- 2
converse
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui était employé aux œuvres serviles d’un monastère. 2. Qui se tourne vers la religion, ou qui entre dans les ordres tardivement, à un âge avancé, par opposition aux oblats. 3. Qualifie une proposition où, de l’attribut de la première, on fait le sujet de la seconde, et du sujet de la première l’attribut de la seconde, sans que la proposition cesse d’être vraie. → voir converse 4. Mot ou lexème formé par un changement de classe de mot, par conversion.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of convers
- converse feminine
- converses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce convers?
- /kɔ̃.vɛʁ/
- \kɔ̃.vɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is convers in French?
convers appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).