Which to use
“innocente” and “innocentes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,287
- “innocente” frequency rank
- #22,297
- “innocentes” frequency rank
- 36584
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | innocente | innocentes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de innocent. | Féminin pluriel de innocent. |
Same sound, different letters: innocente vs innocentes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. innocente runs 9 letters (VCCVCVCCV) against innocentes's 10 (VCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: innocente vs innocentes
This is the hard kind. innocente and innocentes are pronounced identically (\i.nɔ.sɑ̃t\) 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) - “innocente” sits inside “innocentes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36584, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
innocente is recorded at frequency rank #14,287, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.nɔ.sɑ̃t\. innocentes is at rank #22,297, tagged as anadj, pronounced \i.nɔ.sɑ̃t\.
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 36584, this pair ranks #268,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of innocente vs innocentes
Shared letters: ceinot. Private to "innocente": -. Private to "innocentes": s.
"innocente" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCV · "innocentes" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- innocente ← inncoente · innoccente · innocenet · innocennte · innocentte · innocetne · innocnete · innoecnte
- innocentes ← inncoentes · innoccentes · innocenets · innocenntes · innocentess · innocentse · innocenttes · innocetnes
Frequently Asked Questions
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In ordinary French text, does "innocente" or "innocentes" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "innocente" / "innocentes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "innocente" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "innocentes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #268,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "innocente" and "innocentes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "indécente vs innocente". 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 #268,566 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.