Which to use
“excellentes” and “excellents” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,044
- “excellentes” frequency rank
- #8,847
- “excellents” frequency rank
- 19891
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excellentes | excellents |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de excellent. | Masculin pluriel de excellent. |
Where the eye mixes excellentes and excellents
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. excellentes runs 11 letters (VCCVCCVCCVC) against excellents's 10 (VCCVCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between excellentes and excellents
A purely visual mix-up. excellentes (\ɛk.se.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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19891, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excellentes is recorded at frequency rank #11,044, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.se.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 19891, this pair ranks #371,009 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of excellentes vs excellents
Shared letters: celnstx. Private to "excellentes": -. Private to "excellents": -.
"excellentes" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC · "excellents" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excellentes ← ecxellentes · exccellentes · excelelntes · excelentes · excellenets · excellenntes · excellentess · excellentse
- excellents ← ecxellents · exccellents · excelelnts · excelents · excellennts · excellenst · excellentss · excellentts
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "excellentes" for "excellents" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "excellentes" or "excellents" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "excellentes" 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 #371,009 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excellentes" 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 #371,009 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.