Which to use
“prendraient” and “prendrait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,577
- “prendraient” frequency rank
- #9,219
- “prendrait” frequency rank
- 36796
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | prendraient | prendrait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du conditionnel du verbe prendre. | Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel du verbe prendre. |
Same sound, different letters: prendraient vs prendrait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - prendraient and prendrait
This is the hard kind. prendraient and prendrait are pronounced identically (\pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ\) and both work as averb. 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36796, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
prendraient is recorded at frequency rank #27,577, classified as averb, pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ\. prendrait is at rank #9,219, tagged as averb, pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ\.
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 36796, this pair ranks #267,068 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of prendraient vs prendrait
Shared letters: adeinprt. Private to "prendraient": -. Private to "prendrait": -.
"prendraient" · 11 letters · shape CCVCCCVVVCC · "prendrait" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- prendraient ← perndraient · pprendraient · prednraient · prendarient · prenddraient · prendraeint · prendraiennt · prendraientt
- prendrait ← perndrait · pprendrait · prednrait · prendarit · prenddrait · prendraitt · prendrati · prendriat
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "prendraient" and "prendrait" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "prendraient" vs "prendrait" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"prendraient" and "prendrait" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "prendraient" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "prendrait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #267,068 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "prendraient" and "prendrait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "perdraient vs prendraient". 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 #267,068 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.