Which to use
“noter” and “notez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,842
- “noter” frequency rank
- #12,626
- “notez” frequency rank
- 15468
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | noter | notez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Marquer d’un trait dans un livre, dans un écrit. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de noter. |
Same sound, different letters: noter vs notez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters.
Homophone desk: noter vs notez
This is the hard kind. noter and notez are pronounced identically (\nɔ.te\) 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 - r in “noter” becomes z in “notez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15468, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
noter is recorded at frequency rank #2,842, classified as averb, pronounced \nɔ.te\. notez is at rank #12,626, tagged as averb, pronounced \nɔ.te\.
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 15468, this pair ranks #392,237 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of noter vs notez
Shared letters: enot. Private to "noter": r. Private to "notez": z.
"noter" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "notez" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "noter" and "notez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "noter" vs "notez" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"noter" and "notez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "noter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "notez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #392,237 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "noter" and "notez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "notez vs noués". 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 #392,237 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.