Which to use
“conde” and “cordée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #49,566
- “conde” frequency rank
- #40,693
- “cordée” frequency rank
- 90259
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | conde | cordée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Comte. | Ce qui peut être entouré d'une corde. |
Where the eye mixes conde and cordée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. conde runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against cordée's 6 (CVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between conde and cordée
A purely visual mix-up. conde (\ˈko̞n.de̞\) and cordée (\kɔʁ.de\) 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 90259, 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\. cordée is at rank #40,693, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔʁ.de\.
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 90259, this pair ranks #4,958 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of conde vs cordée
Shared letters: cdeo. Private to "conde": n. Private to "cordée": ré.
"conde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "cordée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- conde ← cconde · cnode · codne · condde · coned · connde · ocnde
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "conde" and "cordée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "conde" or "cordée" show up more?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "conde" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cordée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #4,958 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "conde" and "cordée" 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 #4,958 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.