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Which to use

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

#30,105
“conditionnée” frequency rank
#37,738
“conditionnés” frequency rank
67843
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conditionnée conditionnés
Definition Féminin singulier de conditionné. Masculin pluriel de conditionné.

Same sound, different letters: conditionnée vs conditionnés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. conditionnée (CVCCVCVVCCVV) and conditionnés (CVCCVCVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

12 ch
conditionnée
12 ch
conditionnés

Same sound, different spelling - conditionnée / conditionnés

This is the hard kind. conditionnée and conditionnés are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.di.sjɔ.ne\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - e in “conditionnée” becomes s in “conditionnés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67843, 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\. conditionnés is at rank #37,738, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.di.sjɔ.ne\.

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 67843, this pair ranks #61,692 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of conditionnée vs conditionnés

Shared letters: cdinoté. Private to "conditionnée": e. Private to "conditionnés": s.

"conditionnée" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCCVV  ·  "conditionnés" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "conditionnée" for "conditionnés" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ̃.di.sjɔ.ne\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "conditionnée" or "conditionnés" show up more?
"conditionnée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,105 in our French list, against #37,738 for "conditionnés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "conditionnée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "conditionnés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #61,692 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conditionnée" and "conditionnés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conditionnent vs conditionnés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #61,692 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