Which to use
“impôt” and “impôts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,227
- “impôt” frequency rank
- #2,368
- “impôts” frequency rank
- 4595
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | impôt | impôts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Prélèvement pécuniaire, établi par la loi, obligatoire et sans contrepartie directe, perçu par l’État ou les collectivités publiques afin de financer les dépenses publiques. | Pluriel de impôt. |
Same sound, different letters: impôt vs impôts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - impôt and impôts
This is the hard kind. impôt and impôts are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.po\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “impôt” sits inside “impôts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4595, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
impôt is recorded at frequency rank #2,227, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.po\. impôts is at rank #2,368, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.po\.
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 4595, this pair ranks #431,214 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of impôt vs impôts
Shared letters: imptô. Private to "impôt": -. Private to "impôts": s.
"impôt" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC · "impôts" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "impôt" vs "impôts" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "impôt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "impôts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #431,214 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "impôt" and "impôts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "impec vs impôt". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #431,214 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.