confuse
\kɔ̃.fyz\
The verdict
“confuse” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,484. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,484
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de confus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confuse · confuse · French
confuse · rank #19,484 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,484
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compétitifs
Nearest frequency peer: compétitifs (-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 « confuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clone
clone
80,520 corpus weight
- collaborati…
collaborations
80,519 corpus weight
- compétitifs
compétitifs
80,518 corpus weight
- confuse
confuse
80,517 corpus weight
- connotation
connotation
80,516 corpus weight
- constellati…
constellation
80,515 corpus weight
What this shows « confuse » 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 | confuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fyz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around confuse (IPA \kɔ̃.fyz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,484 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de confus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for confuse, with forms such as "cconfuse", "cnofuse", and "cofnuse". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "connue", "connus", "conquise", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is confuse, spelled C-O-N-F-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de confus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous aperçûmes beaucoup de petites Anne, ayant la mine, confuse et pâle, de la chère petite amie de Quincey.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfuse
- cnofuse
- cofnuse
- conffuse
- confsue
- confues
- confusse
- connfuse
- conufse
- ocnfuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confuse - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "confuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).