charmantevscharmantesWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: charmante is a noun, charmantes is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“charmante” is a noun and “charmantes” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#8,079
“charmante” frequency rank
#27,725
“charmantes” frequency rank
35804
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature charmante charmantes
Definition Femme charmante. Féminin pluriel de charmant.

Same sound, different letters: charmante vs charmantes

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. charmante runs 9 letters (CCVCCVCCV) against charmantes's 10 (CCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
charmante
10 ch
charmantes

Ear matches; page differs - charmante and charmantes

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: charmante and charmantes carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʃaʁ.mɑ̃t\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “charmante” sits inside “charmantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35804, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

charmante is recorded at frequency rank #8,079, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʃaʁ.mɑ̃t\. charmantes is at rank #27,725, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʃaʁ.mɑ̃t\.

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 35804, this pair ranks #274,109 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of charmante vs charmantes

Shared letters: acehmnrt. Private to "charmante": -. Private to "charmantes": s.

"charmante" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVCCV  ·  "charmantes" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • charmante ← cahrmante · ccharmante · chamrante · charamnte · charmanet · charmannte · charmantte · charmatne
  • charmantes ← cahrmantes · ccharmantes · chamrantes · charamntes · charmanets · charmanntes · charmantess · charmantse

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "charmante" and "charmantes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "charmante" is a noun and "charmantes" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "charmante" or "charmantes" show up more?
"charmante" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,079 in our French list, against #27,725 for "charmantes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"charmante" and "charmantes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "charmante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "charmantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #274,109 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "charmante" and "charmantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "charmantes vs charmants". 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 #274,109 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