Which to use
“mettrais” and “mettrait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,980
- “mettrais” frequency rank
- #12,813
- “mettrait” frequency rank
- 27793
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mettrais | mettrait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de mettre. | Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de mettre. |
Same sound, different letters: mettrais vs mettrait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. mettrais and mettrait follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - mettrais and mettrait
This is the hard kind. mettrais and mettrait are pronounced identically (\mɛ.tʁɛ\) 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 differ by a single letter - s in “mettrais” becomes t in “mettrait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27793, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mettrais is recorded at frequency rank #14,980, classified as averb, pronounced \mɛ.tʁɛ\. mettrait is at rank #12,813, tagged as averb, pronounced \mɛ.tʁɛ\.
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 27793, this pair ranks #326,714 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of mettrais vs mettrait
Shared letters: aeimrt. Private to "mettrais": s. Private to "mettrait": -.
"mettrais" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVVC · "mettrait" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mettrais" and "mettrait" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "mettrais" or "mettrait"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "mettrais" / "mettrait". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "mettrais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mettrait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #326,714 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mettrais" and "mettrait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mentait vs mettrait". 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 #326,714 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.