extrémiste vs extrémistes

Which to use

“extrémiste” and “extrémistes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#18,482
“extrémiste” frequency rank: #10,705
“extrémistes” frequency rank: 29187
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	extrémiste	extrémistes
Definition	Qui tient de l’extrémisme.	Pluriel de extrémiste.

Same sound, different letters: extrémiste vs extrémistes

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. extrémiste runs 10 letters (VCCCVCVCCV) against extrémistes's 11 (VCCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch

extrémiste

11 ch

extrémistes

Homophone desk: extrémiste vs extrémistes

This is the hard kind. extrémiste and extrémistes are pronounced identically (\ɛk.stʁe.mist\) 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) - “extrémiste” sits inside “extrémistes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29187, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

extrémiste is recorded at frequency rank #18,482, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.stʁe.mist\. extrémistes is at rank #10,705, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛks.tʁe.mist\.

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 29187, this pair ranks #318,219 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of extrémiste vs extrémistes

Shared letters: eimrstxé. Private to "extrémiste": -. Private to "extrémistes": -.

"extrémiste" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVCCV · "extrémistes" · 11 letters · shape VCCCVCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "extrémiste" and "extrémistes" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛk.stʁe.mist\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Which is more common, "extrémiste" or "extrémistes"?

"extrémistes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,705 in our French list, against #18,482 for "extrémiste". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "extrémiste" / "extrémistes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

Full dictionary entry for "extrémiste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "extrémistes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #318,219 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"extrémiste" and "extrémistes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "extrémisme vs extrémiste". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #318,219 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.