conduit
/ˈkɒnd(j)ʊɪt/noun
conduit is spelled C-O-N-D-U-I-T: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, conduit means “A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of conduit is conduits.
How many letters and syllables are in conduit?
| Letters | 7: C-O-N-D-U-I-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is conduit?
Conduit appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce conduit?
- /ˈkɒnd(j)ʊɪt/
- /ˈkɒndʒʊɪt/
- /ˈkɒndɪt/
Conduit has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-conduit.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with conduit?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as conduit.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: duction, noctuid.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of conduit
- conduits plural
- cundite
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does conduit mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.
- 2
A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit.
Last week the electricians were running conduit, and this week they'll be pulling cable.
- 3
Any pattern, typically composed of still lifes or oscillators, used to transfer an active region to another location without being destroyed or permanently modified in the process.
- 4
A means by which something is transmitted.
The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.
- 5
An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off–balance sheet bank assets.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Conduit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Kanal, Leitung, Leitungsrohr, Rohr, Rohrleitung, Wasserleitung |
| Spanish | conducto |
| Portuguese | conduíte |
| French | canal |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does conduit come from?
From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).