Which to use
“comes” and “créés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #32,750
- “comes” frequency rank
- #6,489
- “créés” frequency rank
- 39239
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | comes | créés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier de l'indicatif présent du verbe to come. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de créer. |
Where the eye mixes comes and créés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: comes vs créés
A purely visual mix-up. comes (\kʌmz\) and créés (\kʁe.e\) 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 39239, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
comes is recorded at frequency rank #32,750, classified as averb, pronounced \kʌmz\. créés is at rank #6,489, tagged as averb, pronounced \kʁe.e\.
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 39239, this pair ranks #249,447 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of comes vs créés
Shared letters: cs. Private to "comes": emo. Private to "créés": ré.
"comes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "créés" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- comes ← ccomes · cmoes · coems · comess · commes · comse · ocmes
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "comes" and "créés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "comes" or "créés"?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "comes" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "créés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #249,447 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "comes" and "créés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cakes vs comes". 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 #249,447 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.