confondent
\kɔ̃.fɔ̃d\
The verdict
“confondent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,100. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,100
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de confondre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confondent · confondent · French
confondent · rank #17,100 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,100
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compétentes
Nearest frequency peer: compétentes (-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 « confondent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- color
color
82,904 corpus weight
- comportait
comportait
82,903 corpus weight
- compétentes
compétentes
82,902 corpus weight
- confondent
confondent
82,901 corpus weight
- contraignant
contraignant
82,900 corpus weight
- controversée
controversée
82,899 corpus weight
What this shows « confondent » 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 | confondent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confondent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around confondent (IPA \kɔ̃.fɔ̃d\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,100 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for confondent, with forms such as "cconfondent", "cnofondent", and "cofnondent". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "confondez", "confident", "concordent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is confondent, spelled C-O-N-F-O-N-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de confondre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de confondre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confondent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ceux qui veulent percevoir indistinctement ces distinctions de bandes et de goûts comme des choix presque aléatoires, des jeux du libre arbitre jouant avec lui-même (expression gratuite de l’homo ludens), jouant à se désassumer pour mieux se consumer librement, font penser à ces Occidentaux fascinés par l’Asie ou plutôt l’Orient (qui n’est autre qu’une or…
Les jours de la nouvelle épouse se mirent à couler, uniformes, pareils aux humbles flots ternis qui se succèdent et se confondent dans le lit morne du canal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfondent
- cnofondent
- cofnondent
- conffondent
- confnodent
- confodnent
- confonddent
- confondennt
- confondentt
- confondetn
- confondnet
- confonednt
- confonndent
- connfondent
- conofndent
- ocnfondent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confondent - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).