Which to use
“diverse” and “diverses” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,937
- “diverse” frequency rank
- #1,860
- “diverses” frequency rank
- 26797
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | diverse | diverses |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de divers. | Féminin pluriel de divers. |
Same sound, different letters: diverse vs diverses
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. diverse runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against diverses's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: diverse vs diverses
This is the hard kind. diverse and diverses are pronounced identically (\di.vɛʁs\) 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) - “diverse” sits inside “diverses”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26797, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
diverse is recorded at frequency rank #24,937, classified as anadj, pronounced \di.vɛʁs\. diverses is at rank #1,860, tagged as anadj, pronounced \di.vɛʁs\.
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 26797, this pair ranks #332,807 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of diverse vs diverses
Shared letters: deirsv. Private to "diverse": -. Private to "diverses": -.
"diverse" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "diverses" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "diverse" and "diverses" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "diverse" or "diverses" show up more?
Useful next steps
"diverse" and "diverses" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "diverse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "diverses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #332,807 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "diverse" and "diverses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "disease vs diverse". 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 #332,807 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.