Which to use
“bites” and “butée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,866
- “bites” frequency rank
- #46,043
- “butée” frequency rank
- 60909
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bites | butée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de bite. | Dispositif servant à délimiter la course d’une pièce mobile. |
Where the eye mixes bites and butée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: bites vs butée
A purely visual mix-up. bites (\bit\) and butée (\by.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60909, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bites is recorded at frequency rank #14,866, classified as anoun, pronounced \bit\. butée is at rank #46,043, tagged as anoun, pronounced \by.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 60909, this pair ranks #95,149 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of bites vs butée
Shared letters: bet. Private to "bites": is. Private to "butée": ué.
"bites" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "butée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- bites ← bbites · biets · bitess · bitse · bittes · bties · ibtes
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "bites" for "butée" ever safe?
Which is more common, "bites" or "butée"?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "bites" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "butée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #95,149 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bites" and "butée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "buses vs butée". 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 #95,149 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.