confidante
noun
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Is it confident or confidant? (Or is it confidante?)
If you find yourself unsure whether you should choose confident or confidant don’t feel bad; confidant comes to English from the French word confident, and when the word first entered our language it was often spelled that way, rather than as confidant. The difference is quite simple: confidant is a noun (meaning "a person in whom you confide things"), and confident is an adjective (defined as “having confidence”). You may well be confident in your confidant, but you would not be confidant in your confident. Although this distinction has not always been observed by writers, confidante is generally used for a female confidant. The word confidant is more frequently used to describe a man, but it may be applied to either gender.
Examples of confidante in a Sentence
Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2026
Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury Maneuvering society behind the scenes is the esteemed Lady Agatha Danbury, also a close confidante of the queen.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
After almost every jump, Gu huddles with her mother and confidante, Yan, to review footage Yan recorded on her phone.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 22 Jan. 2026
The childhood confidantes are set to collaborate once again for Netflix's upcoming kidnapping crime film Animals.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
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“Confidante.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confidante. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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