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“excellente” and “excellents” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,000
- “excellente” frequency rank
- #8,847
- “excellents” frequency rank
- 11847
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excellente | excellents |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de excellent. | Masculin pluriel de excellent. |
Where the eye mixes excellente and excellents
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. excellente (VCCVCCVCCV) and excellents (VCCVCCVCCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: excellente vs excellents
A purely visual mix-up. excellente (\ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃t\) and excellents (\ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃\) 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 a single letter - e in “excellente” becomes s in “excellents”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11847, 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\. 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 11847, this pair ranks #407,598 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of excellente vs excellents
Shared letters: celntx. Private to "excellente": -. Private to "excellents": s.
"excellente" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV · "excellents" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excellente ← ecxellente · exccellente · excelelnte · excelente · excellenet · excellennte · excellentte · excelletne
- excellents ← ecxellents · exccellents · excelelnts · excelents · excellennts · excellenst · excellentss · excellentts
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "excellente" and "excellents" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "excellente" or "excellents" show up more?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "excellente" 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 #407,598 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excellente" and "excellents" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excédents 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 #407,598 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.