Which to use
“amusante” and “amusantes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,063
- “amusante” frequency rank
- #32,271
- “amusantes” frequency rank
- 49334
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | amusante | amusantes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de amusant. | Féminin pluriel de amusant. |
Same sound, different letters: amusante vs amusantes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. amusante runs 8 letters (VCVCVCCV) against amusantes's 9 (VCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - amusante and amusantes
This is the hard kind. amusante and amusantes are pronounced identically (\a.my.zɑ̃t\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “amusante” sits inside “amusantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49334, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
amusante is recorded at frequency rank #17,063, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.my.zɑ̃t\. amusantes is at rank #32,271, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.my.zɑ̃t\.
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 49334, this pair ranks #171,543 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of amusante vs amusantes
Shared letters: aemnstu. Private to "amusante": -. Private to "amusantes": -.
"amusante" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCCV · "amusantes" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "amusante" and "amusantes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "amusante" or "amusantes" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "amusante" / "amusantes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "amusante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "amusantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #171,543 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "amusante" and "amusantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "amusantes vs amusants". 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 #171,543 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.