confondre

\kɔ̃.fɔ̃dʁ\

/\kɔ̃.fɔ̃dʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“confondre” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,067. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,067
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réunir, mêler des choses et même des personnes de manière à ne former qu’un tout.

Corpus desk

Index FR-confondre · confondre · French

confondre · rank #6,067 · 14 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,067
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH confie

Nearest frequency peer: confie (-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 « confondre »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « confondre » 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).

confondre vs confondu
78% similar
confondre vs confonds
78% similar
confondre vs confondus
78% similar

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

Key facts for confondre
PropertyValue
Headwordconfondre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.fɔ̃dʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,067
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confondre »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « confie » (#6,066), « constant » (#6,068), « concepts » (#6,065). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « confondre » est au #6,067. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around confondre (IPA \kɔ̃.fɔ̃dʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,067 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for confondre, with forms such as "cconfondre", "cnofondre", and "cofnondre". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "confondu", "confonds", "confondus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 confondre, spelled C-O-N-F-O-N-D-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Réunir, mêler des choses et même des personnes de manière à ne former qu’un tout.
  2. 2
    Ne pas faire la distinction entre des personnes et des choses différentes ; prendre une personne ou une chose pour une autre.
  3. 3
    Mettre en désordre, déconcerter, humilier.
  4. 4
    Convaincre en causant de la honte, réduire à ne savoir que répondre.
  5. 5
    Démasquer.
  6. 6
    Remplir d’un grand étonnement, d’une sorte de stupeur.
  7. 7
    Multiplier quelque politesse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Alors toute étiquette fut bannie, les deux troupes se mêlèrent et se confondirent si bien qu’au bout de quelques minutes elles n’en formaient plus qu’une seule.
  2. Il y a des chimistes à la Erlich qui confondent dans la même admiration les mortiers colossaux et le salvarsan, le 420 et le 606.

This word in other languages

confound(English)confundir(Español)vermischen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconfondre
  • cnofondre
  • cofnondre
  • conffondre
  • confnodre
  • confodnre
  • confonddre
  • confonder
  • confondrre
  • confonndre
  • confonrde
  • connfondre
  • conofndre
  • ocnfondre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

cconfondre1cnofondre2cofnondre2conffondre1confnodre2confodnre2confonddre1confonder2
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "confondre"?
"confondre" is spelled C-O-N-F-O-N-D-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fɔ̃dʁ\.
What does "confondre" mean?
As a verb, "confondre" means: Réunir, mêler des choses et même des personnes de manière à ne former qu’un tout.
What words are commonly confused with "confondre"?
"confondre" is commonly confused with "confondu", "confonds", "confondus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "confondre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confondre" is \kɔ̃.fɔ̃dʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "confondre" come from?
"confondre" 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 "confondre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

culturels#6,075démarches#6,079empreinte#6,081Asiatique#6,050

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

fabricant14 variantssanctions14 variantsregardent14 variantspartagent14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list