convoyer
\kɔ̃.vwa.je\
The verdict
“convoyer” is uncommon French (frequency #68,942 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,942
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accompagner ; escorter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-convoyer · convoyer · French
convoyer · rank #68,942 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,942
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conventionnés
Nearest frequency peer: conventionnés (-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 « convoyer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- consultes
consultes
31,062 corpus weight
- convenez
convenez
31,061 corpus weight
- conventionn…
conventionnés
31,060 corpus weight
- convoyer
convoyer
31,059 corpus weight
- coordinateu…
coordinateurs
31,058 corpus weight
- copuler
copuler
31,056 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « convoyer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | convoyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.vwa.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « convoyer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
convoyer is uncommon French at frequency #68,942 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.vwa.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for convoyer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is convoyer, spelled C-O-N-V-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Accompagner ; escorter.
- 2Transporter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how convoyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les glaces de la mer Blanche n'avaient que peu de rapports avec celles de la banquise, et les cargos étaient précédés et convoyés par de remarquables « brise-glaces ».
Convoyer des sommes importantes.
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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