conduisvsconquisWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: conduis is a verb, conquis is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“conduis” is a verb and “conquis” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#18,691
“conduis” frequency rank
#9,141
“conquis” frequency rank
27832
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conduis conquis
Definition Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de conduire. Envahi, occupé.

Letter map: conduis vs conquis

Shared letters muted; letters that set conduis and conquis apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. conduis and conquis follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
conduis
7 ch
conquis

Role in the sentence - conduis and conquis

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: conduis is averb and conquisanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “conduis” becomes q in “conquis”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27832, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conduis is recorded at frequency rank #18,691, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.dɥi\. conquis is at rank #9,141, tagged as anadj.

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 27832, this pair ranks #326,503 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of conduis vs conquis

Shared letters: cinosu. Private to "conduis": d. Private to "conquis": q.

"conduis" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC  ·  "conquis" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • conduis ← cconduis · cnoduis · codnuis · condduis · condius · conduiss · condusi · connduis
  • conquis ← cconquis · cnoquis · connquis · conqius · conqquis · conquiss · conqusi · conuqis

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "conduis" and "conquis" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "conduis" is a verb and "conquis" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "conduis" or "conquis"?
"conquis" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,141 in our French list, against #18,691 for "conduis". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "conduis" and "conquis". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "conduis" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "conquis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #326,503 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conduis" and "conquis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conduis vs conques". 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 #326,503 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