Which to use
“beauté” and “beautés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,469
- “beauté” frequency rank
- #15,813
- “beautés” frequency rank
- 17282
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | beauté | beautés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qualité de ce qui est beau, de ce qui est esthétique à la perception. | Pluriel de beauté. |
Same sound, different letters: beauté vs beautés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. beauté runs 6 letters (CVVVCV) against beautés's 7 (CVVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - beauté and beautés
This is the hard kind. beauté and beautés are pronounced identically (\bo.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) - “beauté” sits inside “beautés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17282, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
beauté is recorded at frequency rank #1,469, classified as anoun, pronounced \bo.te\. beautés is at rank #15,813, tagged as anoun, pronounced \bo.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 17282, this pair ranks #383,920 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of beauté vs beautés
Shared letters: abetué. Private to "beauté": -. Private to "beautés": s.
"beauté" · 6 letters · shape CVVVCV · "beautés" · 7 letters · shape CVVVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "beauté" for "beautés" ever safe?
Frequency check: "beauté" vs "beautés" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "beauté" / "beautés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "beauté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "beautés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #383,920 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "beauté" and "beautés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Beaujeu vs beautés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #383,920 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.