converse
\kɔ̃.vɛʁs\
The verdict
“converse” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,421. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,421
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proposition converse : proposition sur laquelle on opère la conversion, c’est-à-dire dont on change l’attribut en sujet et le sujet en attribut, sans qu’elle cesse d’être vraie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-converse · converse · French
converse · rank #31,421 · 12 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,421
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH controversés
Nearest frequency peer: controversés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « converse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- constitutifs
constitutifs
68,583 corpus weight
- contraignan…
contraignantes
68,582 corpus weight
- controversés
controversés
68,581 corpus weight
- converse
converse
68,580 corpus weight
- cormier
cormier
68,579 corpus weight
- cors
cors
68,578 corpus weight
What this shows « converse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | converse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « converse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around converse (IPA \kɔ̃.vɛʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,421 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for converse, with forms such as "cconverse", "cnoverse", and "conevrse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "covers", "convexe", "couverte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is converse, spelled C-O-N-V-E-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Proposition converse : proposition sur laquelle on opère la conversion, c’est-à-dire dont on change l’attribut en sujet et le sujet en attribut, sans qu’elle cesse d’être vraie.
- 2Moniale responsable des travaux manuels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how converse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fraternité islamique est la converse d’une exclusive contre les infidèles qui ne peut pas s’avouer, puisque, en se reconnaissant comme telle, elle équivaudrait à les reconnaître eux-mêmes comme existants.
Nulle pierre n’est homme devient ainsi : Nul homme n’est pierre. La première de ces deux propositions est la converse
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconverse
- cnoverse
- conevrse
- connverse
- converes
- converrse
- conversse
- convesre
- convrese
- convverse
- covnerse
- ocnverse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of converse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).