English homophones
cond/conned
"cond" is an adjective; "conned" is a verb - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "cond" arrives as an adjective, while "conned" is a verb. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "con" then splits - "cond" (4 letters) vs "conned" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across cond, conned: cdno. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
cond
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory cdno · no private letters vs siblings
conned
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory cdeno · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "cond" when you mean: Clipping of conditional.
- Write "conned" when you mean: simple past and past participle of con
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (cond, conned). Here's where to go from here.
- "conned" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #35,229 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: Keynes · canes. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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