convive
\kɔ̃.viv\
The verdict
“convive” is uncommon French (frequency #59,193 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,193
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui se trouve à un repas avec d’autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-convive · convive · French
convive · rank #59,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,193
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conviendrez
Nearest frequency peer: conviendrez (-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 « convive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contractants
contractants
40,811 corpus weight
- contrebandi…
contrebandier
40,810 corpus weight
- conviendrez
conviendrez
40,809 corpus weight
- convive
convive
40,808 corpus weight
- cornélien
cornélien
40,807 corpus weight
- corridas
corridas
40,806 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « convive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.viv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « convive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
convive is uncommon French at frequency #59,193 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.viv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui se trouve à un repas avec d’autres.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for convive, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is convive, spelled C-O-N-V-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui se trouve à un repas avec d’autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how convive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous nous mîmes à table. J'avais recommandé la carte au garçon : mes convives parurent contens.
Lorsqu’on eut pris place autour d’une table richement décorée, madame Necker parcourut d’un regard le cercle des convives.
This word in other languages
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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