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“excellent” and “excellente” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,865
- “excellent” frequency rank
- #3,000
- “excellente” frequency rank
- 4865
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excellent | excellente |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui excelle ; qui possède toutes les qualités requises, très bon. | Féminin singulier de excellent. |
Where the eye mixes excellent and excellente
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. excellent runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVCC) against excellente's 10 (VCCVCCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: excellent vs excellente
A purely visual mix-up. excellent (\ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃\) and excellente (\ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃t\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “excellent” sits inside “excellente”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4865, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excellent is recorded at frequency rank #1,865, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃\. excellente is at rank #3,000, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.sɛ.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 4865, this pair ranks #430,488 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of excellent vs excellente
Shared letters: celntx. Private to "excellent": -. Private to "excellente": -.
"excellent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC · "excellente" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- excellent ← ecxellent · exccellent · excelelnt · excelent · excellennt · excellentt · excelletn · excellnet
- excellente ← ecxellente · exccellente · excelelnte · excelente · excellenet · excellennte · excellentte · excelletne
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "excellent" and "excellente" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "excellent" or "excellente"?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "excellent" and "excellente" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "excellent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excellente" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #430,488 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excellent" and "excellente" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excellent vs exceller". 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 #430,488 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.