Which to use
“muette” and “muettes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,540
- “muette” frequency rank
- #48,672
- “muettes” frequency rank
- 67212
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | muette | muettes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de muet. | Féminin pluriel de muet. |
Same sound, different letters: muette vs muettes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. muette runs 6 letters (CVVCCV) against muettes's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - muette / muettes
This is the hard kind. muette and muettes are pronounced identically (\mɥɛt\) 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) - “muette” sits inside “muettes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67212, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
muette is recorded at frequency rank #18,540, classified as anadj, pronounced \mɥɛt\. muettes is at rank #48,672, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mɥɛt\.
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 67212, this pair ranks #64,412 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of muette vs muettes
Shared letters: emtu. Private to "muette": -. Private to "muettes": s.
"muette" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "muettes" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "muette" and "muettes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "muette" or "muettes"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "muette" / "muettes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "muette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "muettes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #64,412 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "muette" and "muettes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mottes vs muettes". 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 #64,412 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.