confèrent
\kɔ̃.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“confèrent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,704
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de conférer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conferent · confèrent · French
confèrent · rank #29,704 · 15 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,704
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confient
Nearest frequency peer: confient (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « confèrent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- compères
compères
70,300 corpus weight
- confiait
confiait
70,299 corpus weight
- confient
confient
70,298 corpus weight
- confèrent
confèrent
70,297 corpus weight
- connaissiez
connaissiez
70,295 corpus weight
- conservatoi…
conservatoires
70,294 corpus weight
What this shows « confèrent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | confèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confèrent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around confèrent (IPA \kɔ̃.fɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,704 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for confèrent, with forms such as "cconfèrent", "cnofèrent", and "cofnèrent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "conférer", "confient", "conférés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is confèrent, spelled C-O-N-F-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de conférer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de conférer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a pu découvrir un modèle au design choisi, grâce aux options originales qui lui confèrent un petit air de minimoto.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfèrent
- cnofèrent
- cofnèrent
- conferent
- conffèrent
- confrèent
- confèernt
- confèrennt
- confèrentt
- confèretn
- confèrnet
- confèrrent
- connfèrent
- conèfrent
- ocnfèrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confèrent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "confèrent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).