Which to use
“moire” is a noun and “moites” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #48,051
- “moire” frequency rank
- #40,873
- “moites” frequency rank
- 88924
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | moire | moites |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Apprêt que reçoivent, par un calandrage spécifique, certaines étoffes de soie, de laine, de coton ou de lin, et qui leur communique un éclat changeant, une apparence ondée et chatoyante. | Pluriel de moite. |
Where the eye mixes moire and moites
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. moire runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against moites's 6 (CVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: moire vs moites
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: moire is \mwaʁ\ while moites is \mwat\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 88924, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
moire is recorded at frequency rank #48,051, classified as anoun, pronounced \mwaʁ\. moites is at rank #40,873, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mwat\.
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 88924, this pair ranks #6,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of moire vs moites
Shared letters: eimo. Private to "moire": r. Private to "moites": st.
"moire" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "moites" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "moire" for "moites" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "moire" or "moites" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "moire" and "moites" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "moire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "moites" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #6,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "moire" and "moites" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "moire vs moisie". 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 #6,380 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.