Which to use
“activité” and “activités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #713
- “activité” frequency rank
- #973
- “activités” frequency rank
- 1686
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | activité | activités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | État de celui, celle, ce qui est actif, qui agit. | Pluriel de activité. |
Same sound, different letters: activité vs activités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Homophone desk: activité vs activités
This is the hard kind. activité and activités are pronounced identically (\ak.ti.vi.te\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “activité” sits inside “activités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1686, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
activité is recorded at frequency rank #713, classified as anoun, pronounced \ak.ti.vi.te\. activités is at rank #973, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ak.ti.vi.te\.
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 1686, this pair ranks #437,575 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of activité vs activités
Shared letters: acitvé. Private to "activité": -. Private to "activités": s.
"activité" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV · "activités" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "activité" and "activités" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "activité" or "activités" show up more?
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 "activité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "activités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #437,575 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "activité" and "activités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "activités vs activity". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #437,575 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.