conditionnéevsconditionnelleWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: conditionnée is a adjective, conditionnelle is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“conditionnée” is an adjective and “conditionnelle” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,105
“conditionnée” frequency rank
#16,579
“conditionnelle” frequency rank
46684
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conditionnée conditionnelle
Definition Féminin singulier de conditionné. Liberté conditionnelle

Where the eye mixes conditionnée and conditionnelle

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 11 letters in sequence. conditionnée runs 12 letters (CVCCVCVVCCVV) against conditionnelle's 14 (CVCCVCVVCCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
conditionnée
14 ch
conditionnelle

Why the eye confuses conditionnée with conditionnelle

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: conditionnée is \kɔ̃.di.sjɔ.ne\ while conditionnelle is \kɔ̃.di.sjɔ.nɛl\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46684, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conditionnée is recorded at frequency rank #30,105, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.di.sjɔ.ne\. conditionnelle is at rank #16,579, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃.di.sjɔ.nɛl\.

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 46684, this pair ranks #192,955 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of conditionnée vs conditionnelle

Shared letters: cdeinot. Private to "conditionnée": é. Private to "conditionnelle": l.

"conditionnée" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCCVV  ·  "conditionnelle" · 14 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • conditionnelle ← cconditionnelle · cnoditionnelle · codnitionnelle · condditionnelle · condiitonnelle · conditinonelle · conditionelle · conditionenlle

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "conditionnée" and "conditionnelle" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "conditionnée" is an adjective and "conditionnelle" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "conditionnée" or "conditionnelle" show up more?
"conditionnelle" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,579 in our French list, against #30,105 for "conditionnée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "conditionnée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "conditionnelle" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #192,955 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conditionnée" and "conditionnelle" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conditionnée vs conditionnent". 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 #192,955 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