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

#12,568
“fasciste” frequency rank
#16,620
“fascistes” frequency rank
29188
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fasciste fascistes
Definition Qui est propre au fascisme. Pluriel de fasciste.

Same sound, different letters: fasciste vs fascistes

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

8 ch
fasciste
9 ch
fascistes

Homophone desk: fasciste vs fascistes

This is the hard kind. fasciste and fascistes are pronounced identically (\fa.ʃist\) 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) - “fasciste” sits inside “fascistes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29188, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fasciste is recorded at frequency rank #12,568, classified as anadj, pronounced \fa.ʃist\. fascistes is at rank #16,620, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fa.ʃist\.

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 29188, this pair ranks #318,211 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of fasciste vs fascistes

Shared letters: acefist. Private to "fasciste": -. Private to "fascistes": -.

"fasciste" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "fascistes" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fascisteafsciste · facsiste · fascciste · fasciset · fascisste · fascistte · fascitse · fascsite
  • fascistesafscistes · facsistes · fasccistes · fascisets · fascisstes · fascistess · fascistse · fascisttes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "fasciste" and "fascistes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fa.ʃist\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "fasciste" vs "fascistes" - which ranks higher?
"fasciste" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,568 in our French list, against #16,620 for "fascistes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "fasciste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fascistes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #318,211 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fasciste" and "fascistes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fascinée vs fasciste". 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 #318,211 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list