Which to use
“devinette” and “devinettes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #38,748
- “devinette” frequency rank
- #46,103
- “devinettes” frequency rank
- 84851
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | devinette | devinettes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Question à deviner par manière de jeu. | Pluriel de devinette. |
Same sound, different letters: devinette vs devinettes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - devinette and devinettes
This is the hard kind. devinette and devinettes are pronounced identically (\də.vi.nɛt\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “devinette” sits inside “devinettes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 84851, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
devinette is recorded at frequency rank #38,748, classified as anoun, pronounced \də.vi.nɛt\. devinettes is at rank #46,103, tagged as anoun, pronounced \də.vi.nɛt\.
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 84851, this pair ranks #12,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of devinette vs devinettes
Shared letters: deintv. Private to "devinette": -. Private to "devinettes": s.
"devinette" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCV · "devinettes" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- devinette ← ddevinette · deivnette · devientte · devinete · devinetet · devinnette · devintete · devniette
- devinettes ← ddevinettes · deivnettes · devienttes · devinetes · devinetets · devinettess · devinettse · devinnettes
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "devinette" for "devinettes" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "devinette" or "devinettes" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "devinette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "devinettes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #12,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- 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 #12,285 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.