conduit
\kɔ̃.dɥi\
The verdict
“conduit” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,859
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tuyau, canal par lequel coule et passe quelque fluide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conduit · conduit · French
conduit · rank #1,859 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,859
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH condition
Nearest frequency peer: condition (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “conduit”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- co
co
98,145 corpus weight
- colère
colère
98,144 corpus weight
- condition
condition
98,143 corpus weight
- conduit
conduit
98,142 corpus weight
- diverses
diverses
98,141 corpus weight
- dormir
dormir
98,140 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “conduit” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conduit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.dɥi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “conduit” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around conduit (IPA \kɔ̃.dɥi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,859 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for conduit, with forms such as "cconduit", "cnoduit", and "codnuit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "connut", "confit", "connaît", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is conduit, spelled C-O-N-D-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Tuyau, canal par lequel coule et passe quelque fluide.
- 2Genre musical vocal médiéval, sur un texte à caractère généralement paraliturgique, ou simplement moralisateur. Il s’agit d’un chant de « conduite ».
- 3Motet d'église.
- 4Sous l’Ancien Régime, désigne le feu ou le foyer, par métonymie et ellipse de conduit de cheminée.
- 5Poulie servant de passage à une manœuvre.
- 6Cavalier, dans le sens de pointe recourbée et affûtée au deux extrémités
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conduit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Portion du foie du Porc, injectée, destinée à montrer les rapports des conduits biliaires et des veinules portales.
La glande génitale est située dans le cœlome, et sans continuité avec les conduits génitaux ; une partie de la couronne pédieuse péribuccale est hectocotylisée, c'est-à-dire modifiée en organe d'accouplement, chez le mâle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconduit
- cnoduit
- codnuit
- condduit
- condiut
- conduitt
- conduti
- connduit
- conudit
- ocnduit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conduit - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "conduit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "conduit" maps to 15 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "connut". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,859 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.