evidencevsévidentesWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: evidence is a noun, évidentes is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“evidence” is a noun and “évidentes” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#32,402
“evidence” frequency rank
#16,284
“évidentes” frequency rank
48686
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature evidence évidentes
Definition Donnée en faveur d'une certaine hypothèse ; preuve (dans un sens faible, très relatif) Féminin pluriel de évident.

Where the eye mixes evidence and évidentes

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. evidence runs 8 letters (VCVCVCCV) against évidentes's 9 (VCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
evidence
9 ch
évidentes

Visual trap between evidence and évidentes

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: evidence is \ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns\ while évidentes is \e.vi.dɑ̃t\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48686, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

evidence is recorded at frequency rank #32,402, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns\. évidentes is at rank #16,284, tagged as anadj, pronounced \e.vi.dɑ̃t\.

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 48686, this pair ranks #176,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of evidence vs évidentes

Shared letters: deinv. Private to "evidence": c. Private to "évidentes": sté.

"evidence" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCCV  ·  "évidentes" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • evidence ← eivdence · evdience · eviddence · evidecne · evidencce · evidenec · evidennce · evidnece

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "evidence" and "évidentes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "evidence" is a noun and "évidentes" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "evidence" or "évidentes" show up more?
"évidentes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,284 in our French list, against #32,402 for "evidence". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "evidence" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "évidentes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #176,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "evidence" and "évidentes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "evidence vs évidences". 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 #176,827 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list