Which to use
“heurté” is an adjective and “heurts” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #18,501
- “heurté” frequency rank
- #23,574
- “heurts” frequency rank
- 42075
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | heurté | heurts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qualifie un dessin où l’artiste a négligé de fondre les teintes avec soin et d’adoucir les contours, mais qui est large et vigoureux. | Pluriel de heurt. |
Where the eye mixes heurté and heurts
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. heurté (CVVCCV) and heurts (CVVCCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Why the eye confuses heurté with heurts
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: heurté is ^((h aspiré))\œʁ.te\ while heurts is \œʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - é in “heurté” becomes s in “heurts”, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42075, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
heurté is recorded at frequency rank #18,501, classified as anadj, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\œʁ.te\. heurts is at rank #23,574, tagged as anoun, pronounced \œʁ\.
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 42075, this pair ranks #228,412 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of heurté vs heurts
Shared letters: ehrtu. Private to "heurté": é. Private to "heurts": s.
"heurté" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "heurts" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- heurts ← ehurts · heruts · heurrts · heurst · heurtss · heurtts · heutrs · hheurts
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "heurté" for "heurts" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "heurté" or "heurts" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "heurté" and "heurts" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "heurté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "heurts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #228,412 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "heurté" and "heurts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "heurt vs heurts". 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 #228,412 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.