Which to use
“lister” and “listés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,924
- “lister” frequency rank
- #37,895
- “listés” frequency rank
- 61819
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | lister | listés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mettre sous forme de liste. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de lister. |
Same sound, different letters: lister vs listés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. lister and listés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - lister / listés
This is the hard kind. lister and listés are pronounced identically (\lis.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61819, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
lister is recorded at frequency rank #23,924, classified as averb, pronounced \lis.te\. listés is at rank #37,895, tagged as averb, pronounced \lis.te\.
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 61819, this pair ranks #90,254 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of lister vs listés
Shared letters: ilst. Private to "lister": er. Private to "listés": é.
"lister" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "listés" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- lister ← ilster · lisetr · lisster · listerr · listre · listter · litser · llister
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "lister" and "listés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "lister" vs "listés" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "lister" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "listés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #90,254 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "lister" and "listés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "leste vs listés". 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 #90,254 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.