Which to use
“importante” and “importantes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,029
- “importante” frequency rank
- #1,998
- “importantes” frequency rank
- 3027
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | importante | importantes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier d'important. | Féminin pluriel de important. |
Same sound, different letters: importante vs importantes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. importante runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCCV) against importantes's 11 (VCCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: importante vs importantes
This is the hard kind. importante and importantes are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃t\) 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) - “importante” sits inside “importantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3027, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
importante is recorded at frequency rank #1,029, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃t\. importantes is at rank #1,998, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃t\.
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 3027, this pair ranks #434,961 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of importante vs importantes
Shared letters: aeimnoprt. Private to "importante": -. Private to "importantes": s.
"importante" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV · "importantes" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- importante ← immportante · imoprtante · imporatnte · imporrtante · importanet · importannte · importantte · importatne
- importantes ← immportantes · imoprtantes · imporatntes · imporrtantes · importanets · importanntes · importantess · importantse
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "importante" and "importantes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "importante" or "importantes" show up more?
Useful next steps
"importante" and "importantes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "importante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "importantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #434,961 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "importante" and "importantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "importantes vs imposantes". 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 #434,961 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.