Which to use
“mante” and “mantes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #40,857
- “mante” frequency rank
- #21,689
- “mantes” frequency rank
- 62546
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mante | mantes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Vêtement de femme, ample et sans manches, qui se porte par dessus les autres vêtements, par temps froids. | Pluriel de mante. |
Same sound, different letters: mante vs mantes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. mante runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against mantes's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: mante vs mantes
This is the hard kind. mante and mantes are pronounced identically (\mɑ̃t\) 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) - “mante” sits inside “mantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62546, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mante is recorded at frequency rank #40,857, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɑ̃t\. mantes is at rank #21,689, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɑ̃t\.
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 62546, this pair ranks #86,523 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of mante vs mantes
Shared letters: aemnt. Private to "mante": -. Private to "mantes": s.
"mante" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "mantes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "mante" and "mantes" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "mante" vs "mantes" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "mante" / "mantes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "mante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #86,523 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mante" and "mantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "manor vs mante". 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 #86,523 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.