Which to use
“infâmes” and “infimes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #40,815
- “infâmes” frequency rank
- #37,870
- “infimes” frequency rank
- 78685
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | infâmes | infimes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de infâme. | Pluriel de infime. |
Where the eye mixes infâmes and infimes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. infâmes and infimes follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses infâmes with infimes
A purely visual mix-up. infâmes (\ɛ̃.fɑm\) and infimes (\ɛ̃.fim\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - â in “infâmes” becomes i in “infimes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 78685, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
infâmes is recorded at frequency rank #40,815, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.fɑm\. infimes is at rank #37,870, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.fim\.
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 78685, this pair ranks #25,140 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of infâmes vs infimes
Shared letters: efimns. Private to "infâmes": â. Private to "infimes": -.
"infâmes" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC · "infimes" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- infimes ← ifnimes · inffimes · infiems · infimess · infimmes · infimse · infmies · inifmes
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "infâmes" and "infimes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "infâmes" or "infimes" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "infâmes" and "infimes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "infâmes" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "infimes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #25,140 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "infâmes" and "infimes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "incités vs infimes". 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 #25,140 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.