covenant
\kɔ.və.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“covenant” is uncommon French (frequency #53,880 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,880
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Convention, accord, dans un contexte commercial anglo-saxon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-covenant · covenant · French
covenant · rank #53,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,880
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cousus
Nearest frequency peer: cousus (-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 « covenant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cotisants
cotisants
46,124 corpus weight
- courbée
courbée
46,123 corpus weight
- cousus
cousus
46,122 corpus weight
- covenant
covenant
46,121 corpus weight
- crispation
crispation
46,120 corpus weight
- croûtons
croûtons
46,118 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « covenant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | covenant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.və.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « covenant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
covenant is uncommon French at frequency #53,880 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ.və.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for covenant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 covenant, spelled C-O-V-E-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Convention, accord, dans un contexte commercial anglo-saxon.
- 2Ligue ou convention que les Écossais firent ensemble pour maintenir leur religion telle qu'elle était en 1580.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how covenant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un accord qui comprend une modification des covenants du groupe qui prennent désormais en compte la volatilité de l’industrie ainsi que le refinancement partiel d’une ligne de crédit venant à échéance en 2013 par de nouveaux prêts à plus de trois ans pour un montant total de 280 millions d’euros.
En 1581, Jacques VI, pour tenter de désarmer les critiques qui soulignaient l'influence croissante des catholiques à la cour, signa un document qui allait être connu sous le nom de Covenant du roi ou de Confession négative.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).