condvscondeWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#44,131
“cond” frequency rank
#38,341
“conde” frequency rank
82472
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cond conde
Definition Clipping of conditional. Alternative spelling of conn.

Letter map: cond vs conde

Shared letters muted; letters that set cond and conde apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. cond runs 4 letters (CVCC) against conde's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
cond
5 ch
conde

Role in the sentence - cond and conde

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cond is anadjective and condeanoun. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “cond” sits inside “conde”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 82472, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cond is recorded at frequency rank #44,131, classified as anadj, pronounced /kɒnd/. conde is at rank #38,341, tagged as anoun.

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 82472, this pair ranks #15,667 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of cond vs conde

Shared letters: cdno. Private to "cond": -. Private to "conde": e.

"cond" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "conde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cond ← ccond · cnod · codn · condd · connd · ocnd
  • conde ← cconde · cnode · codne · condde · ocnde

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cond" and "conde" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cond" is an adjective and "conde" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "cond" vs "conde" - which ranks higher?
"conde" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,341 in our English list, against #44,131 for "cond". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "cond" and "conde". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cond" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "conde" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #15,667 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cond" and "conde" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cond vs cuny". 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 #15,667 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list