convoyage
\kɔ̃.vwa.jaʒ\
The verdict
“convoyage” is uncommon French (frequency #75,541 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,541
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Opération par laquelle on transporte une marchandise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-convoyage · convoyage · French
convoyage · rank #75,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,541
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convoitées
Nearest frequency peer: convoitées (-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 « convoyage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- continuateur
continuateur
24,465 corpus weight
- continueras
continueras
24,464 corpus weight
- convoitées
convoitées
24,461 corpus weight
- convoyage
convoyage
24,460 corpus weight
- coproductio…
coproductions
24,457 corpus weight
- Corchia
Corchia
24,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « convoyage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convoyage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vwa.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « convoyage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
convoyage is uncommon French at frequency #75,541 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.vwa.jaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Opération par laquelle on transporte une marchandise.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for convoyage, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is convoyage, spelled C-O-N-V-O-Y-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Opération par laquelle on transporte une marchandise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how convoyage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1994, quelques années après sa sortie de l’Institut nautique de Bretagne, Jean-Marc Le Goueff a monté son entreprise de convoyage.
Le 13 juin, alors que le front croulait de toutes parts, en revenant d'une mission de convoyage en Bloch-210 je fus blessé par un éclat sur le terrain de Tours.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).