convoitise
\kɔ̃.vwa.tiz\
The verdict
“convoitise” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,958
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désir immodéré, déréglé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-convoitise · convoitise · French
convoitise · rank #34,958 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,958
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conviviale
Nearest frequency peer: conviviale (-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 « convoitise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contrebalan…
contrebalancer
65,046 corpus weight
- convaincants
convaincants
65,045 corpus weight
- conviviale
conviviale
65,044 corpus weight
- convoitise
convoitise
65,043 corpus weight
- convoitises
convoitises
65,042 corpus weight
- copeaux
copeaux
65,041 corpus weight
What this shows « convoitise » 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 | convoitise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vwa.tiz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « convoitise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around convoitise (IPA \kɔ̃.vwa.tiz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,958 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Désir immodéré, déréglé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for convoitise, with forms such as "cconvoitise", "cnovoitise", and "connvoitise". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "convoitises", "convoite", "convoitée", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is convoitise, spelled C-O-N-V-O-I-T-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Désir immodéré, déréglé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how convoitise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'infernale convoitise pousse les enfants de Caïn à s'emparer de tout ce qui est à leur portée; et, comme si ce n'était pas assez qu'un seul accapare ce qui suffirait à des milliers de ses semblables, il voudrait s'y établir, lui et toute sa couvée, pour toute éternité.
…je ne vous donnerai pas cinq mille piastres, comme vous me le demandez, mais huit mille, vous m’avez bien compris, n’est-ce pas ? Les yeux du guide brillèrent de convoitise et de cupidité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconvoitise
- cnovoitise
- connvoitise
- conovitise
- conviotise
- convoiitse
- convoities
- convoitisse
- convoitsie
- convoittise
- convotiise
- convvoitise
- covnoitise
- ocnvoitise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of convoitise - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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