confondu
\kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dy\
The verdict
“confondu” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,020
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troublé, confus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confondu · confondu · French
confondu · rank #11,020 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,020
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conduits
Nearest frequency peer: conduits (-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 « confondu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- collision
collision
88,984 corpus weight
- combustible
combustible
88,983 corpus weight
- conduits
conduits
88,982 corpus weight
- confondu
confondu
88,981 corpus weight
- congrégation
congrégation
88,980 corpus weight
- continuation
continuation
88,979 corpus weight
What this shows « confondu » 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 | confondu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dy\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confondu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around confondu (IPA \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,020 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for confondu, with forms such as "cconfondu", "cnofondu", and "cofnondu". 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, "confondus", "confondue", "confondues", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is confondu, spelled C-O-N-F-O-N-D-U.
Definition
- 1Troublé, confus.
- 2Démasqué, déjoué.
- 3Se dit d'un ensemble qui serait égal à un autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confondu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce gros homme, sans front ni crâne, occupé tout le jour dans sa maison et dans son jardin à compter les morceaux de sucre et les poires, et qui posait des sonnettes en recevant la visite de ses collègues de la Faculté, déployait à nuire une activité et une sorte d’intelligence dont M. Bergeret demeurait confondu.
Cette semaine, à titre posthume, lorsqu’on a attribué la médaille de l’Assemblée nationale à Michel Noël... j’avais l’impression qu’on célébrait mon vieux chum. Le petit blond n’était drôlement pas confondu... du... du... du.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfondu
- cnofondu
- cofnondu
- conffondu
- confnodu
- confodnu
- confonddu
- confonndu
- confonud
- connfondu
- conofndu
- ocnfondu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confondu - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).