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“atteint” and “atteints” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,283
“atteint” frequency rank
#7,526
“atteints” frequency rank
8809
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature atteint atteints
Definition Touché, blessé, diminué. Masculin pluriel de atteint.

Same sound, different letters: atteint vs atteints

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

7 ch
atteint
8 ch
atteints

Ear matches; page differs - atteint and atteints

This is the hard kind. atteint and atteints are pronounced identically (\a.tɛ̃\) 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) - “atteint” sits inside “atteints”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8809, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

atteint is recorded at frequency rank #1,283, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.tɛ̃\. atteints is at rank #7,526, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.tɛ̃\.

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 8809, this pair ranks #418,771 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of atteint vs atteints

Shared letters: aeint. Private to "atteint": -. Private to "atteints": s.

"atteint" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVCC  ·  "atteints" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • atteintateint · atetint · atteinnt · atteintt · atteitn · attenit · attient · tateint
  • atteintsateints · atetints · atteinnts · atteinst · atteintss · atteintts · atteitns · attenits

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "atteint" and "atteints" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.tɛ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "atteint" vs "atteints" - which ranks higher?
"atteint" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,283 in our French list, against #7,526 for "atteints". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "atteint" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "atteints" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #418,771 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "atteint" and "atteints" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "atteins vs atteints". 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 #418,771 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list