conocevsconoscoConfusable pair

Quick tell: conoce is a verb, conosco is a pronoun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“conoce” is a verb and “conosco” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,014
“conoce” frequency rank
#30,824
“conosco” frequency rank
31838
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conoce conosco
Definition Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de conocer. Con nosotros o nosotras: forma combinada de com (preposición, 'con') y nós (pronombre personal de primera persona del plural).

Letter map: conoce vs conosco

Shared letters muted; letters that set conoce and conosco apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. conoce runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against conosco's 7 (CVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
conoce
7 ch
conosco

Part-of-speech tell for conoce / conosco

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: conoce is averb and conoscoapronoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31838, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conoce is recorded at frequency rank #1,014, classified as averb, pronounced [koˈnose]. conosco is at rank #30,824, tagged as apron.

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 31838, this pair ranks #205,053 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of conoce vs conosco

Shared letters: cno. Private to "conoce": e. Private to "conosco": s.

"conoce" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "conosco" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • conoce ← cconoce · cnooce · concoe · connoce · conocce · conoec · conose · coonce
  • conosco ← cconosco · cnoosco · connosco · conocso · conoscco · conosoc · conossco · consoco

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "conoce" and "conosco" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "conoce" is a verb and "conosco" a pronoun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "conoce" vs "conosco" - which ranks higher?
"conoce" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,014 in our Spanish list, against #30,824 for "conosco". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "conoce" and "conosco". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "conoce" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "conosco" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #205,053 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conoce" and "conosco" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coloco vs conosco". 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 #205,053 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list