convoiter
\kɔ̃.vwa.te\
The verdict
“convoiter” is uncommon French (frequency #67,399 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,399
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désirer avidement ce qu’un autre possède.
Corpus desk
Index FR-convoiter · convoiter · French
convoiter · rank #67,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,399
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH copulation
Nearest frequency peer: copulation (+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 « convoiter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coni
coni
32,605 corpus weight
- consternés
consternés
32,604 corpus weight
- convoiter
convoiter
32,602 corpus weight
- copulation
copulation
32,601 corpus weight
- correspondu
correspondu
32,599 corpus weight
- cose
cose
32,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « convoiter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convoiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vwa.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « convoiter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
convoiter is uncommon French at frequency #67,399 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.vwa.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Désirer avidement ce qu’un autre possède.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for convoiter, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is convoiter, spelled C-O-N-V-O-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Désirer avidement ce qu’un autre possède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how convoiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 19 octobre 1852, le prince Louis-Napoléon, encore président de la République, mais convoitant ardemment l’hérédité impériale, avait dit dans un discours […].
Peut-être donnerait-elle au Maître un garçon. Eh bien! tant mieux! la fortune, du moins, n’irait pas aux neveux et aux cousins du Cheikh qui la convoitaient déjà.
Synonyms
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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