Which to use
“excellence” is a noun and “excellentes” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,230
- “excellence” frequency rank
- #11,044
- “excellentes” frequency rank
- 15274
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excellence | excellentes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Degré élevé de qualité. | Féminin pluriel de excellent. |
Where the eye mixes excellence and excellentes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. excellence runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCCV) against excellentes's 11 (VCCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: excellence vs excellentes
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: excellence is \ɛk.se.lɑ̃s\ while excellentes is \ɛk.se.lɑ̃t\. 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 15274, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excellence is recorded at frequency rank #4,230, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛk.se.lɑ̃s\. excellentes is at rank #11,044, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.se.lɑ̃t\.
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 15274, this pair ranks #393,069 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of excellence vs excellentes
Shared letters: celnx. Private to "excellence": -. Private to "excellentes": st.
"excellence" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV · "excellentes" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excellence ← ecxellence · exccellence · excelelnce · excelence · excellecne · excellencce · excellenec · excellennce
- excellentes ← ecxellentes · exccellentes · excelelntes · excelentes · excellenets · excellenntes · excellentess · excellentse
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "excellence" and "excellentes" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "excellence" or "excellentes"?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "excellence" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excellentes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #393,069 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excellence" and "excellentes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excellentes vs excellents". 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 #393,069 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.