Which to use
“faculté” and “facultés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,609
- “faculté” frequency rank
- #10,002
- “facultés” frequency rank
- 13611
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | faculté | facultés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Puissance physique ou morale qui rend un être capable d’agir d’une certaine manière, de produire certains effets. | Pluriel de faculté. |
Same sound, different letters: faculté vs facultés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. faculté runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against facultés's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: faculté vs facultés
This is the hard kind. faculté and facultés are pronounced identically (\fa.kyl.te\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “faculté” sits inside “facultés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13611, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
faculté is recorded at frequency rank #3,609, classified as anoun, pronounced \fa.kyl.te\. facultés is at rank #10,002, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fa.kyl.te\.
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 13611, this pair ranks #400,282 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of faculté vs facultés
Shared letters: acfltué. Private to "faculté": -. Private to "facultés": s.
"faculté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "facultés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "faculté" and "facultés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "faculté" vs "facultés" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "faculté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "facultés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #400,282 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "faculté" and "facultés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "faculté vs fécule". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #400,282 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.