Which to use
“internaute” and “internautes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,919
- “internaute” frequency rank
- #6,837
- “internautes” frequency rank
- 23756
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | internaute | internautes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Utilisateur de l'internet. | Pluriel de internaute. |
Same sound, different letters: internaute vs internautes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - internaute and internautes
This is the hard kind. internaute and internautes are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.not\) 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) - “internaute” sits inside “internautes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23756, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
internaute is recorded at frequency rank #16,919, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.not\. internautes is at rank #6,837, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.not\.
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 23756, this pair ranks #350,649 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of internaute vs internautes
Shared letters: aeinrtu. Private to "internaute": -. Private to "internautes": s.
"internaute" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCV · "internautes" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- internaute ← inetrnaute · innternaute · intenraute · interanute · internatue · internauet · internautte · internnaute
- internautes ← inetrnautes · innternautes · intenrautes · interanutes · internatues · internauets · internautess · internautse
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "internaute" for "internautes" ever safe?
Frequency check: "internaute" vs "internautes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"internaute" and "internautes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "internaute" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "internautes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #350,649 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "internaute" and "internautes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "internat vs internaute". 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 #350,649 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.