Which to use
“confondu” and “confondues” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,020
- “confondu” frequency rank
- #12,343
- “confondues” frequency rank
- 23363
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | confondu | confondues |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troublé, confus. | Féminin pluriel de confondu. |
Same sound, different letters: confondu vs confondues
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. confondu runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against confondues's 10 (CVCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - confondu and confondues
This is the hard kind. confondu and confondues are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dy\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “confondu” sits inside “confondues”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23363, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
confondu is recorded at frequency rank #11,020, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dy\. confondues is at rank #12,343, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.fɔ̃.dy\.
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 23363, this pair ranks #352,930 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of confondu vs confondues
Shared letters: cdfnou. Private to "confondu": -. Private to "confondues": es.
"confondu" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "confondues" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- confondu ← cconfondu · cnofondu · cofnondu · conffondu · confnodu · confodnu · confonddu · confonndu
- confondues ← cconfondues · cnofondues · cofnondues · conffondues · confnodues · confodnues · confonddues · confondeus
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "confondu" and "confondues" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "confondu" or "confondues" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "confondu" / "confondues". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "confondu" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "confondues" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #352,930 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "confondu" and "confondues" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confondez vs confondues". 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 #352,930 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.