Which to use
“confondue” and “confondues” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,109
- “confondue” frequency rank
- #12,343
- “confondues” frequency rank
- 40452
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | confondue | confondues |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de confondu. | Féminin pluriel de confondu. |
Same sound, different letters: confondue vs confondues
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. confondue runs 9 letters (CVCCVCCVV) against confondues's 10 (CVCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - confondue / confondues
This is the hard kind. confondue 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 1 extra letter(s) - “confondue” sits inside “confondues”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40452, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
confondue is recorded at frequency rank #28,109, 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 40452, this pair ranks #240,393 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of confondue vs confondues
Shared letters: cdefnou. Private to "confondue": -. Private to "confondues": s.
"confondue" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV · "confondues" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- confondue ← cconfondue · cnofondue · cofnondue · conffondue · confnodue · confodnue · confonddue · confondeu
- confondues ← cconfondues · cnofondues · cofnondues · conffondues · confnodues · confodnues · confonddues · confondeus
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "confondue" for "confondues" ever safe?
Which is more common, "confondue" or "confondues"?
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 "confondue" 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 #240,393 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "confondue" and "confondues" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confondez vs confondue". 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 #240,393 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.