confie

\kɔ̃.fi\

/\kɔ̃.fi\/ verb

The verdict

“confie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,066
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de confier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-confie · confie · French

confie · rank #6,066 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,066
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH concepts

Nearest frequency peer: concepts (-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 « confie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « confie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

confie vs copie
67% similar
confie vs conte
67% similar
confie vs conne
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for confie
PropertyValue
Headwordconfie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.fi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,066
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confie »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.confiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « concepts » (#6,065), « confondre » (#6,067), « combattants » (#6,064). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « confie » est au #6,066. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around confie (IPA \kɔ̃.fi\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,066 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for confie, with forms such as "cconfie", "cnofie", and "cofnie". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "copie", "conte", "conne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is confie, spelled C-O-N-F-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de confier.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de confier.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de confier.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de confier.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de confier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how confie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je confie le loustic à mes hommes mandés dare-dare et, escorté de Pinaud, légèrement désenvapé, je bombe chez le cher Béru.
  2. J’ai grand-peur, confie-t-il un jour à des familiers, que cette dame débauchée ne la fasse devenir sujette au vin et aux femmes, et ne la mette sur les dents avant de me la rendre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconfie
  • cnofie
  • cofnie
  • confei
  • conffie
  • conife
  • connfie
  • ocnfie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confie - 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.

cconfie1cnofie2cofnie2confei2conffie1conife2connfie1ocnfie2
Edit distance from "confie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "confie"?
"confie" is spelled C-O-N-F-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fi\.
What does "confie" mean?
As a verb, "confie" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de confier.
What words are commonly confused with "confie"?
"confie" is commonly confused with "copie", "conte", "conne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "confie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confie" is \kɔ̃.fi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "confie" come from?
"confie" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "confie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list