Which to use
“excellente” and “excellentes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,000
- “excellente” frequency rank
- #11,044
- “excellentes” frequency rank
- 14044
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excellente | excellentes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de excellent. | Féminin pluriel de excellent. |
Where the eye mixes excellente and excellentes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. excellente 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.
Visual trap between excellente and excellentes
A purely visual mix-up. excellente (\ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃t\) and excellentes (\ɛk.se.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) - “excellente” sits inside “excellentes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14044, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excellente is recorded at frequency rank #3,000, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃t\. 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 14044, this pair ranks #398,426 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of excellente vs excellentes
Shared letters: celntx. Private to "excellente": -. Private to "excellentes": s.
"excellente" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV · "excellentes" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excellente ← ecxellente · exccellente · excelelnte · excelente · excellenet · excellennte · excellentte · excelletne
- excellentes ← ecxellentes · exccellentes · excelelntes · excelentes · excellenets · excellenntes · excellentess · excellentse
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "excellente" and "excellentes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "excellente" vs "excellentes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "excellente" and "excellentes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "excellente" 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 #398,426 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excellente" 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 #398,426 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.