Which to use
“excellent” and “excellents” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,865
- “excellent” frequency rank
- #8,847
- “excellents” frequency rank
- 10712
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excellent | excellents |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui excelle ; qui possède toutes les qualités requises, très bon. | Masculin pluriel de excellent. |
Same sound, different letters: excellent vs excellents
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. excellent runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVCC) against excellents's 10 (VCCVCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - excellent and excellents
This is the hard kind. excellent and excellents are pronounced identically (\ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃\) 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) - “excellent” sits inside “excellents”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10712, 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\. excellents is at rank #8,847, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃\.
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 10712, this pair ranks #411,919 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of excellent vs excellents
Shared letters: celntx. Private to "excellent": -. Private to "excellents": s.
"excellent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC · "excellents" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excellent ← ecxellent · exccellent · excelelnt · excelent · excellennt · excellentt · excelletn · excellnet
- excellents ← ecxellents · exccellents · excelelnts · excelents · excellennts · excellenst · excellentss · excellentts
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "excellent" for "excellents" ever safe?
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "excellent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excellents" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #411,919 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excellent" and "excellents" 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 #411,919 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.