pouvoir de convaincre

\pu.vwaʁ də kɔ̃.vɛ̃kʁ\

/\pu.vwaʁ də kɔ̃.vɛ̃kʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“pouvoir de convaincre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
21
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Capacité d’un État ou d’un groupe d’États à rallier à ses vues un ou plusieurs autres États, grâce à l’influence prépondérante qu’il exerce dans divers domaines, à son rayonnement ou au prestige qu...

Key facts for pouvoir de convaincre
PropertyValue
Headwordpouvoir de convaincre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pu.vwaʁ də kɔ̃.vɛ̃kʁ\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pouvoir de convaincre” sits in French frequency

pouvoir de convaincre falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pouvoir de convaincre is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pu.vwaʁ də kɔ̃.vɛ̃kʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Capacité d’un État ou d’un groupe d’États à rallier à ses vues un ou plusieurs autres États, grâce à l’influence prépondérante qu’il exerce dans divers domaines, à son rayonnement ou au prestige qu...".

No misspelling variants are generated for pouvoir de convaincre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pouvoir de convaincre, spelled P-O-U-V-O-I-R- -D-E- -C-O-N-V-A-I-N-C-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Capacité d’un État ou d’un groupe d’États à rallier à ses vues un ou plusieurs autres États, grâce à l’influence prépondérante qu’il exerce dans divers domaines, à son rayonnement ou au prestige qui lui est reconnu.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pouvoir de convaincre"?
"pouvoir de convaincre" is spelled P-O-U-V-O-I-R- -D-E- -C-O-N-V-A-I-N-C-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.vwaʁ də kɔ̃.vɛ̃kʁ\.
What does "pouvoir de convaincre" mean?
As a noun, "pouvoir de convaincre" means: Capacité d’un État ou d’un groupe d’États à rallier à ses vues un ou plusieurs autres États, grâce à l’influence prépondérante qu’il exerce dans divers domaines, à son rayonnement ou au prestige qu...
How do you pronounce "pouvoir de convaincre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pouvoir de convaincre" is \pu.vwaʁ də kɔ̃.vɛ̃kʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “pouvoir de convaincre”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-V-O-I-R- -D-E- -C-O-N-V-A-I-N-C-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \pu.vwaʁ də kɔ̃.vɛ̃kʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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