conduirontvsconduisentWhich spelling fits?

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

#44,386
“conduiront” frequency rank
#10,295
“conduisent” frequency rank
54681
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conduiront conduisent
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel du futur de conduire. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de conduire.

Where the eye mixes conduiront and conduisent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. conduiront and conduisent follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVVCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

10 ch
conduiront
10 ch
conduisent

Look-alike desk: conduiront vs conduisent

A purely visual mix-up. conduiront (\kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃\) and conduisent (\kɔ̃.dɥiz\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54681, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conduiront is recorded at frequency rank #44,386, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃\. conduisent is at rank #10,295, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.dɥiz\.

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 54681, this pair ranks #132,385 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of conduiront vs conduisent

Shared letters: cdinotu. Private to "conduiront": r. Private to "conduisent": es.

"conduiront" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCC  ·  "conduisent" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • conduiront ← cconduiront · cnoduiront · codnuiront · condduiront · condiuront · conduiornt · conduirnot · conduironnt
  • conduisent ← cconduisent · cnoduisent · codnuisent · condduisent · condiusent · conduiesnt · conduisennt · conduisentt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "conduiront" and "conduisent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃\ versus \kɔ̃.dɥiz\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "conduiront" or "conduisent" show up more?
"conduisent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,295 in our French list, against #44,386 for "conduiront". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "conduiront" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "conduisent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #132,385 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conduiront" and "conduisent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conduirait vs conduiront". 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 #132,385 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