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“donnerais” and “donnerait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,112
- “donnerais” frequency rank
- #9,308
- “donnerait” frequency rank
- 25420
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | donnerais | donnerait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du conditionnel du verbe donner. | Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de donner. |
Where the eye mixes donnerais and donnerait
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. donnerais and donnerait follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: donnerais vs donnerait
A purely visual mix-up. donnerais (\dɔn.ʁɛ\) and donnerait (\dɔ.nə.ʁɛ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - s in “donnerais” becomes t in “donnerait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25420, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
donnerais is recorded at frequency rank #16,112, classified as averb, pronounced \dɔn.ʁɛ\. donnerait is at rank #9,308, tagged as averb, pronounced \dɔ.nə.ʁɛ\.
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 25420, this pair ranks #340,981 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of donnerais vs donnerait
Shared letters: adeinor. Private to "donnerais": s. Private to "donnerait": t.
"donnerais" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC · "donnerait" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "donnerais" and "donnerait" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "donnerais" or "donnerait" show up more?
After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "donnerais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "donnerait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #340,981 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "donnerais" and "donnerait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "donnerais vs donneras". 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 #340,981 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.