condevsCondosTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#38,341
“conde” frequency rank
#24,706
“Condos” frequency rank
63047
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conde Condos
Definition Alternative spelling of conn. A surname from Greek.

Letter map: conde vs Condos

Shared letters muted; letters that set conde and Condos apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. conde runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against Condos's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
conde
6 ch
Condos

Part-of-speech tell for conde / Condos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: conde is anoun and Condosaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63047, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conde is recorded at frequency rank #38,341, classified as anoun. 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 63047, this pair ranks #85,187 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of conde vs Condos

Shared letters: cdno. Private to "conde": e. Private to "Condos": s.

"conde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "Condos" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • conde ← cconde · cnode · codne · condde · ocnde
  • Condos ← ccondos · cnodos · codnos · conddos · condoss · condso · conndos · conods

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "conde" for "Condos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "conde" is a noun and "Condos" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "conde" vs "Condos" - which ranks higher?
"Condos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,706 in our English list, against #38,341 for "conde". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "conde" 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 #85,187 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conde" and "Condos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conde vs crone". 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 #85,187 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