Which to use
“banalité” and “banalités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,633
- “banalité” frequency rank
- #38,667
- “banalités” frequency rank
- 65300
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | banalité | banalités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fiscalité médiévale. | Pluriel de banalité. |
Same sound, different letters: banalité vs banalités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. banalité runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against banalités's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - banalité and banalités
This is the hard kind. banalité and banalités are pronounced identically (\ba.na.li.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) - “banalité” sits inside “banalités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65300, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
banalité is recorded at frequency rank #26,633, classified as anoun, pronounced \ba.na.li.te\. banalités is at rank #38,667, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ba.na.li.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 65300, this pair ranks #72,985 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of banalité vs banalités
Shared letters: abilnté. Private to "banalité": -. Private to "banalités": s.
"banalité" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "banalités" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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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 "banalité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "banalités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #72,985 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "banalité" and "banalités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "banaliser vs banalités". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #72,985 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.