notéevsnôtresTell them apart

Quick tell: notée is a adjective, nôtres is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“notée” is an adjective and “nôtres” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,060
“notée” frequency rank
#9,709
“nôtres” frequency rank
34769
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature notée nôtres
Definition Féminin singulier de noté. Folies, bons tours, bons divertissements.

Where the eye mixes notée and nôtres

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. notée runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against nôtres's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
notée
6 ch
nôtres

Visual trap between notée and nôtres

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: notée is \nɔ.te\ while nôtres is \notʁ\. 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 (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34769, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

notée is recorded at frequency rank #25,060, classified as anadj, pronounced \nɔ.te\. nôtres is at rank #9,709, tagged as anoun, pronounced \notʁ\.

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 34769, this pair ranks #281,518 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of notée vs nôtres

Shared letters: ent. Private to "notée": oé. Private to "nôtres": rsô.

"notée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "nôtres" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "notée" for "nôtres" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "notée" is an adjective and "nôtres" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "notée" or "nôtres"?
"nôtres" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,709 in our French list, against #25,060 for "notée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "notée" and "nôtres" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "notée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "nôtres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #281,518 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "notée" and "nôtres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "notée vs noués". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #281,518 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list