Which to use
“émouvante” and “émouvantes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,215
- “émouvante” frequency rank
- #44,825
- “émouvantes” frequency rank
- 66040
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | émouvante | émouvantes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de émouvant. | Féminin pluriel de émouvant. |
Same sound, different letters: émouvante vs émouvantes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. émouvante and émouvantes are pronounced identically (\e.mu.vɑ̃t\) 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) - “émouvante” sits inside “émouvantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66040, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
émouvante is recorded at frequency rank #21,215, classified as anadj, pronounced \e.mu.vɑ̃t\. émouvantes is at rank #44,825, tagged as anadj, pronounced \e.mu.vɑ̃t\.
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 66040, this pair ranks #69,594 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of émouvante vs émouvantes
Shared letters: aemnotuvé. Private to "émouvante": -. Private to "émouvantes": s.
"émouvante" · 9 letters · shape VCVVCVCCV · "émouvantes" · 10 letters · shape VCVVCVCCVC