conviésvsconvoisConfusable pair

Quick tell: conviés is a adjective, convois is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“conviés” is an adjective and “convois” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,962
“conviés” frequency rank
#19,489
“convois” frequency rank
50451
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conviés convois
Definition Masculin pluriel de convié. Pluriel de convoi.

Where the eye mixes conviés and convois

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. conviés and convois follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
conviés
7 ch
convois

Visual trap between conviés and convois

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: conviés is \kɔ̃.vje\ while convois is \kɔ̃.vwa\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50451, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conviés is recorded at frequency rank #30,962, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.vje\. convois is at rank #19,489, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃.vwa\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 50451, this pair ranks #162,512 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of conviés vs convois

Shared letters: cinosv. Private to "conviés": é. Private to "convois": -.

"conviés" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC  ·  "convois" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • convois ← cconvois · cnovois · connvois · conovis · convios · convoiss · convosi · convvois

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "conviés" and "convois" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "conviés" is an adjective and "convois" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "conviés" or "convois" show up more?
"convois" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,489 in our French list, against #30,962 for "conviés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "conviés" and "convois" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "conviés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "convois" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #162,512 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conviés" and "convois" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "congres vs conviés". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #162,512 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list