conquesvsconquisConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#44,390
“conques” frequency rank
#9,141
“conquis” frequency rank
53531
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conques conquis
Definition Pluriel de conque. Envahi, occupé.

Letter map: conques vs conquis

Shared letters muted; letters that set conques and conquis apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. conques 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
conques
7 ch
conquis

Part-of-speech tell for conques / conquis

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: conques is anoun and conquisanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “conques” becomes i in “conquis”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53531, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conques is recorded at frequency rank #44,390, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃k\. 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 53531, this pair ranks #140,089 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of conques vs conquis

Shared letters: cnoqsu. Private to "conques": e. Private to "conquis": i.

"conques" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC  ·  "conquis" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • conquescconques · cnoques · connques · conqeus · conqques · conquess · conquse · conuqes
  • conquiscconquis · cnoquis · connquis · conqius · conqquis · conquiss · conqusi · conuqis

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "conques" and "conquis" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "conques" is a noun and "conquis" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "conques" vs "conquis" - which ranks higher?
"conquis" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,141 in our French list, against #44,390 for "conques". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "conques" 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 #140,089 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conques" and "conquis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "congres 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 #140,089 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