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“communiste” and “communistes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,668
- “communiste” frequency rank
- #5,738
- “communistes” frequency rank
- 9406
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | communiste | communistes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif au communisme, propre au communisme. | Pluriel de communiste. |
Same sound, different letters: communiste vs communistes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. communiste runs 10 letters (CVCCVCVCCV) against communistes's 11 (CVCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - communiste and communistes
This is the hard kind. communiste and communistes are pronounced identically (\kɔ.my.nist\) 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) - “communiste” sits inside “communistes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9406, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
communiste is recorded at frequency rank #3,668, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.my.nist\. communistes is at rank #5,738, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.my.nist\.
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 9406, this pair ranks #416,778 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of communiste vs communistes
Shared letters: ceimnostu. Private to "communiste": -. Private to "communistes": -.
"communiste" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCV · "communistes" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- communiste ← ccommuniste · cmomuniste · commnuiste · commuinste · communiset · communisste · communistte · communitse
- communistes ← ccommunistes · cmomunistes · commnuistes · commuinstes · communisets · communisstes · communistess · communistse
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "communiste" and "communistes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "communiste" or "communistes" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "communiste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "communistes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #416,778 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "communiste" and "communistes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "communiste vs community". 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 #416,778 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.