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Which to use

“conde” and “condos” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#49,566
“conde” frequency rank
#27,745
“condos” frequency rank
77311
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conde condos
Definition Comte. Pluriel de condo. (condensateur).

Where the eye mixes conde and condos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. conde runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against condos's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
conde
6 ch
condos

Visual trap between conde and condos

A purely visual mix-up. conde (\ˈko̞n.de̞\) and condos (\kɔ̃.do\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77311, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conde is recorded at frequency rank #49,566, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈko̞n.de̞\. condos is at rank #27,745, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃.do\.

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 77311, this pair ranks #28,749 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of conde vs condos

Shared letters: cdno. Private to "conde": e. Private to "condos": s.

"conde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "condos" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • conde ← cconde · cnode · codne · condde · coned · connde · ocnde
  • condos ← ccondos · cnodos · codnos · conddos · condoss · condso · conndos · conods

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "conde" for "condos" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ˈko̞n.de̞\ versus \kɔ̃.do\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "conde" vs "condos" - which ranks higher?
"condos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,745 in our French list, against #49,566 for "conde". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "conde" and "condos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "conde" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "condos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #28,749 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conde" and "condos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "CNE vs conde". 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 #28,749 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list