Which to use
“insulte” and “insultes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,256
- “insulte” frequency rank
- #6,403
- “insultes” frequency rank
- 11659
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | insulte | insultes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Outrage, de fait ou de parole, avec dessein prémédité d’offenser. | Pluriel de insulte. |
Same sound, different letters: insulte vs insultes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. insulte runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against insultes's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: insulte vs insultes
This is the hard kind. insulte and insultes are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.sylt\) 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) - “insulte” sits inside “insultes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11659, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
insulte is recorded at frequency rank #5,256, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.sylt\. insultes is at rank #6,403, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.sylt\.
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 11659, this pair ranks #408,317 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of insulte vs insultes
Shared letters: eilnstu. Private to "insulte": -. Private to "insultes": -.
"insulte" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "insultes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "insulte" and "insultes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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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 "insulte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "insultes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #408,317 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "insulte" and "insultes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "insultes vs insultez". 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 #408,317 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.