condvsCondosTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#44,131
“cond” frequency rank
#24,706
“Condos” frequency rank
68837
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cond Condos
Definition Clipping of conditional. A surname from Greek.

Letter map: cond vs Condos

Shared letters muted; letters that set cond and Condos apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch
cond
6 ch
Condos

Role in the sentence - cond and Condos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cond is anadjective and Condosaname. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “cond” sits inside “Condos”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68837, 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/. Condos is at rank #24,706, tagged as aname.

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 68837, this pair ranks #57,116 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of cond vs Condos

Shared letters: cdno. Private to "cond": -. Private to "Condos": s.

"cond" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "Condos" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • condccond · cnod · codn · condd · connd · ocnd
  • Condosccondos · cnodos · codnos · conddos · condoss · condso · conndos · conods

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "cond" and "Condos" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cond" is an adjective and "Condos" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "cond" or "Condos" show up more?
"Condos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,706 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

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "cond" and "Condos".

  • Full dictionary entry for "cond" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Condos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #57,116 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cond" and "Condos" 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 #57,116 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