conduire

/\kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,267

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

conduire is aFrenchverb. It means: Mener, guider, diriger vers un lieu déterminé. Pronounced \kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\. It ranks #2,267 in French word frequency. Often confused with conduit and conduis.

Key facts for conduire
PropertyValue
Headwordconduire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,267
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of conduire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for conduire is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,267 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for conduire, with forms such as "cconduire", "cnoduire", and "codnuire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "conduit", "conduis", "conduite", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is conduire, spelled C-O-N-D-U-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mener, guider, diriger vers un lieu déterminé.
  2. 2
    Piloter un véhicule. Être responsable de mener un véhicule (en évitant les accidents).
  3. 3
    Faire aller.
  4. 4
    Faire passer par différents points.
  5. 5
    Aménager dans un but de production en parlant d’un bois ; tailler dans un but de production pour un arbre.
  6. 6
    Accompagner quelqu’un par civilité, par honneur, etc.
  7. 7
    Mener, guider ou diriger vers un but déterminé.
  8. 8
    Amener à faire.
  9. 9
    Construire, inspecter, avoir la direction, en parlant des ouvrages matériels, de l’esprit et des choses morales.
  10. 10
    Commander, régir, gouverner.
  11. 11
    Diriger un orchestre.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconduire,cnoduire,codnuire,condduire,condiure,conduier,conduirre,condurie,connduire,conudire,ocnduire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conduire

Misspelling Variants of "conduire"

cconduire9cnoduire8codnuire8condduire9condiure8conduier8conduirre9condurie8
Misspelling Variants of "conduire"

Frequency rank: #2,267 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "conduire"?
"conduire" is spelled C-O-N-D-U-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\.
What does "conduire" mean?
As a verb, "conduire" means: Mener, guider, diriger vers un lieu déterminé.
What words are commonly confused with "conduire"?
"conduire" is commonly confused with "conduit", "conduis", "conduite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "conduire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "conduire" is \kɔ̃.dɥiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "conduire" come from?
"conduire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.