Which to use
“choquante” and “choquantes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,589
- “choquante” frequency rank
- #38,200
- “choquantes” frequency rank
- 63789
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | choquante | choquantes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de choquant. | Féminin pluriel de choquant. |
Same sound, different letters: choquante vs choquantes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. choquante runs 9 letters (CCVCVVCCV) against choquantes's 10 (CCVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: choquante vs choquantes
This is the hard kind. choquante and choquantes are pronounced identically (\ʃɔ.kɑ̃t\) 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) - “choquante” sits inside “choquantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63789, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
choquante is recorded at frequency rank #25,589, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʃɔ.kɑ̃t\. choquantes is at rank #38,200, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʃɔ.kɑ̃t\.
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 63789, this pair ranks #80,216 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of choquante vs choquantes
Shared letters: acehnoqtu. Private to "choquante": -. Private to "choquantes": s.
"choquante" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVVCCV · "choquantes" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- choquante ← cchoquante · chhoquante · choqaunte · choqquante · choquanet · choquannte · choquantte · choquatne
- choquantes ← cchoquantes · chhoquantes · choqauntes · choqquantes · choquanets · choquanntes · choquantess · choquantse
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "choquante" and "choquantes" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "choquante" or "choquantes"?
After this comparison
"choquante" and "choquantes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "choquante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "choquantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #80,216 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "choquante" and "choquantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "choquante vs choquent". 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 #80,216 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.