confondait
\kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“confondait” is uncommon French (frequency #84,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,654
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de confondre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confondait · confondait · French
confondait · rank #84,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,654
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concordataire
Nearest frequency peer: concordataire (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « confondait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- comprenions
comprenions
15,350 corpus weight
- concerneront
concerneront
15,349 corpus weight
- concordatai…
concordataire
15,348 corpus weight
- confondait
confondait
15,347 corpus weight
- congrats
congrats
15,346 corpus weight
- congédiée
congédiée
15,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « confondait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confondait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « confondait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
confondait is uncommon French at frequency #84,654 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de confondre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for confondait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is confondait, spelled C-O-N-F-O-N-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de confondre.
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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