Which to use
“conçois” is a verb and “conquis” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #25,952
- “conçois” frequency rank
- #9,141
- “conquis” frequency rank
- 35093
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | conçois | conquis |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de concevoir. | Envahi, occupé. |
Letter map: conçois vs conquis
Shared letters muted; letters that set conçois and conquis apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. conçois and conquis follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for conçois / conquis
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: conçois is averb and conquisanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35093, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
conçois is recorded at frequency rank #25,952, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.swa\. conquis is at rank #9,141, tagged as anadj.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 35093, this pair ranks #279,253 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of conçois vs conquis
Shared letters: cinos. Private to "conçois": ç. Private to "conquis": qu.
"conçois" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC · "conquis" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- conquis ← cconquis · cnoquis · connquis · conqius · conqquis · conquiss · conqusi · conuqis
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "conçois" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "conquis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #279,253 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "conçois" and "conquis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "concise vs conçois". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #279,253 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.