Which to use
“gouter” and “goûtez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,370
- “gouter” frequency rank
- #42,911
- “goûtez” frequency rank
- 72281
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | gouter | goûtez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Exercer le sens du gout sur ce qui a de la saveur. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de goûter. |
Same sound, different letters: gouter vs goûtez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. gouter and goûtez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - gouter / goûtez
This is the hard kind. gouter and goûtez are pronounced identically (\ɡu.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72281, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
gouter is recorded at frequency rank #29,370, classified as averb, pronounced \ɡu.te\. goûtez is at rank #42,911, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɡu.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 72281, this pair ranks #44,542 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of gouter vs goûtez
Shared letters: egot. Private to "gouter": ru. Private to "goûtez": zû.
"gouter" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "goûtez" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- gouter ← ggouter · gotuer · gouetr · gouterr · goutre · goutter · guoter · oguter
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "gouter" and "goûtez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "gouter" or "goûtez" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "gouter" / "goûtez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "gouter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "goûtez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #44,542 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "gouter" and "goûtez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "gouter vs Gruber". 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 #44,542 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.