confondus
\kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dy\
The verdict
“confondus” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,140. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,140
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de confondu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confondus · confondus · French
confondus · rank #13,140 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,140
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comprises
Nearest frequency peer: comprises (-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 « confondus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- compléments
compléments
86,863 corpus weight
- comprises
comprises
86,862 corpus weight
- confondus
confondus
86,861 corpus weight
- connectée
connectée
86,860 corpus weight
- Conrad
Conrad
86,859 corpus weight
- consacrées
consacrées
86,858 corpus weight
What this shows « confondus » 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 | confondus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dy\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confondus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around confondus (IPA \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,140 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de confondu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for confondus, with forms such as "cconfondus", "cnofondus", and "cofnondus". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "confond", "confondu", "confonds", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is confondus, spelled C-O-N-F-O-N-D-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de confondu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confondus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut dire qu'en plus de ses abracadabrants récits d'aventures, le Capitaine Bonhomme a légué au Québec, avec son fameux «les sceptiques seront confondus, dus, dus, dus», une phrase qui fait partie de notre vocabulaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfondus
- cnofondus
- cofnondus
- conffondus
- confnodus
- confodnus
- confonddus
- confondsu
- confonduss
- confonndus
- confonuds
- connfondus
- conofndus
- ocnfondus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confondus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).