Which to use
“navet” and “navets” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,057
- “navet” frequency rank
- #33,368
- “navets” frequency rank
- 62425
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | navet | navets |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plante de la famille des Brassicacées, que l’on cultive pour sa racine tuberculée comestible. | Pluriel de navet. |
Same sound, different letters: navet vs navets
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - navet and navets
This is the hard kind. navet and navets are pronounced identically (\na.vɛ\) 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) - “navet” sits inside “navets”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62425, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
navet is recorded at frequency rank #29,057, classified as anoun, pronounced \na.vɛ\. navets is at rank #33,368, tagged as anoun, pronounced \na.vɛ\.
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 62425, this pair ranks #87,205 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of navet vs navets
Shared letters: aentv. Private to "navet": -. Private to "navets": s.
"navet" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "navets" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "navet" and "navets" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "navet" vs "navets" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"navet" and "navets" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "navet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "navets" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #87,205 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "navet" and "navets" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "naïves vs navets". 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 #87,205 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.