convoi
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,367
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
convoi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réunion plus ou moins grande de navires de commerce naviguant sous l’escorte d’un ou de plusieurs vaisseaux armés. Pronounced \kɔ̃.vwa\. It ranks #8,367 in French word frequency. Often confused with convois and convoite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convoi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for convoi is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.vwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,367 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for convoi, with forms such as "cconvoi", "cnovoi", and "connvoi". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "convois", "convoite", "Congo", 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 convoi, spelled C-O-N-V-O-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Réunion plus ou moins grande de navires de commerce naviguant sous l’escorte d’un ou de plusieurs vaisseaux armés.
- 2Force navale qui escorte.
- 3Transport de munitions, de vivres, etc.
- 4Troupes que l’on transporte d’un point à un autre.
- 5Suite de wagons formant un train.
- 6Train même ou ensemble de personnes qui voyagent dans ce train.
- 7Plusieurs véhicules empruntant ensemble le même trajet.
- 8Cortège lors des obsèques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconvoi,cnovoi,connvoi,conovi,convio,convvoi,covnoi,ocnvoi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "convoi"
Frequency rank: #8,367 in French
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