Which to use
“homos” and “hôtes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,040
- “homos” frequency rank
- #8,560
- “hôtes” frequency rank
- 27600
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | homos | hôtes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de homo. | Pluriel de hôte. |
Where the eye mixes homos and hôtes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. homos and hôtes follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: homos vs hôtes
A purely visual mix-up. homos (\o.mo\) and hôtes (^((h muet))\ot\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27600, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
homos is recorded at frequency rank #19,040, classified as anoun, pronounced \o.mo\. hôtes is at rank #8,560, tagged as anoun, pronounced ^((h muet))\ot\.
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 27600, this pair ranks #327,975 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of homos vs hôtes
Shared letters: hs. Private to "homos": mo. Private to "hôtes": etô.
"homos" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "hôtes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- homos ← hhomos · hmoos · hommos · homoss · homso · hooms · ohmos
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "homos" and "hôtes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "homos" or "hôtes"?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "homos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "hôtes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #327,975 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "homos" and "hôtes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "homos vs houmous". 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 #327,975 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.