PeetersvspostersWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Peeters is a name, posters is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Peeters” is a name and “posters” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#33,822
“Peeters” frequency rank
#25,445
“posters” frequency rank
59267
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Peeters posters
Definition Nom de famille néerlandais. Pluriel de poster.

Where the eye mixes Peeters and posters

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. Peeters (CVVCVCC) and posters (CVCCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
Peeters
7 ch
posters

Look-alike desk: Peeters vs posters

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Peeters is \pe.tɛʁs\ while posters is \pɔs.tɛʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (name vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59267, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Peeters is recorded at frequency rank #33,822, classified as aname, pronounced \pe.tɛʁs\. posters is at rank #25,445, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɔs.tɛʁ\.

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 59267, this pair ranks #104,137 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Peeters vs posters

Shared letters: eprst. Private to "Peeters": -. Private to "posters": o.

"Peeters" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC  ·  "posters" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Peeters ← epeters · peeetrs · peeterrs · peeterss · peetesr · peetres · peetters · peteers
  • posters ← opsters · posetrs · possters · posterrs · posterss · postesr · postres · postters

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Peeters" for "posters" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Peeters" is a name and "posters" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "Peeters" or "posters" show up more?
"posters" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,445 in our French list, against #33,822 for "Peeters". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Peeters" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "posters" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #104,137 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Peeters" and "posters" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Peeters vs pètes". 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 #104,137 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