Which to use
“fascinant” and “fascinants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,159
- “fascinant” frequency rank
- #49,081
- “fascinants” frequency rank
- 59240
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | fascinant | fascinants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui suscite une profonde attirance. | Masculin pluriel de fascinant. |
Same sound, different letters: fascinant vs fascinants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. fascinant runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVCC) against fascinants's 10 (CVCCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - fascinant / fascinants
This is the hard kind. fascinant and fascinants are pronounced identically (\fa.si.nɑ̃\) 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) - “fascinant” sits inside “fascinants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59240, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
fascinant is recorded at frequency rank #10,159, classified as anadj, pronounced \fa.si.nɑ̃\. fascinants is at rank #49,081, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fa.si.nɑ̃\.
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 59240, this pair ranks #104,271 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of fascinant vs fascinants
Shared letters: acfinst. Private to "fascinant": -. Private to "fascinants": -.
"fascinant" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCC · "fascinants" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- fascinant ← afscinant · facsinant · fasccinant · fasciannt · fascinannt · fascinantt · fascinatn · fascinnant
- fascinants ← afscinants · facsinants · fasccinants · fasciannts · fascinannts · fascinanst · fascinantss · fascinantts
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "fascinant" / "fascinants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "fascinant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "fascinants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #104,271 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "fascinant" and "fascinants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fascinantes vs fascinants". 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 #104,271 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.