convexe
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,542
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
convexe is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui présente une surface bombée. Pronounced \kɔ̃.vɛks\. Often confused with corvée and convié.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convexe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vɛks\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for convexe is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.vɛks\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,542 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for convexe, with forms such as "cconvexe", "cnovexe", and "conevxe". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "corvée", "convié", "convenu", 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 convexe, spelled C-O-N-V-E-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui présente une surface bombée.
- 2Qui présente une courbe en bosse.
- 3Qualifie une surface qui ne peut être rencontrée par une ligne droite en plus de deux points.
- 4Qualifie un polygone plan dont les sommets sont dans un même demi-plan par rapport à n’importe quel côté du polygone.
- 5Qui contient tout segment reliant deux de ses points.
- 6Dont la courbe représentative délimite une partie supérieure convexe (c’est-à-dire que tout segment reliant deux points de la courbe représentative est « au-dessus » de la courbe).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconvexe,cnovexe,conevxe,connvexe,conveex,convexxe,convvexe,convxee,covnexe,ocnvexe
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Misspelling Variants of "convexe"
Frequency rank: #30,542 in French
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