Which to use
“malhonnête” and “malhonnêtes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,339
- “malhonnête” frequency rank
- #32,890
- “malhonnêtes” frequency rank
- 52229
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | malhonnête | malhonnêtes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui manque d’honnêteté, qui est contraire à l’honneur, à la probité. | Pluriel de malhonnête. |
Same sound, different letters: malhonnête vs malhonnêtes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. malhonnête and malhonnêtes are pronounced identically (\ma.lɔ.nɛt\) 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) - “malhonnête” sits inside “malhonnêtes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52229, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
malhonnête is recorded at frequency rank #19,339, classified as anadj, pronounced \ma.lɔ.nɛt\. malhonnêtes is at rank #32,890, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ma.lɔ.nɛt\.
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 52229, this pair ranks #149,176 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of malhonnête vs malhonnêtes
Shared letters: aehlmnotê. Private to "malhonnête": -. Private to "malhonnêtes": s.
"malhonnête" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCV · "malhonnêtes" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVC