Which to use
“peinture” and “peintures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,049
- “peinture” frequency rank
- #6,327
- “peintures” frequency rank
- 8376
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | peinture | peintures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Substance pigmentée appliquée en couche à l’aide d’un pinceau, d’un rouleau ou par projection sur une surface à colorer ou à protéger. | Pluriel de peinture. |
Same sound, different letters: peinture vs peintures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. peinture runs 8 letters (CVVCCVCV) against peintures's 9 (CVVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - peinture and peintures
This is the hard kind. peinture and peintures are pronounced identically (\pɛ̃.tyʁ\) 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) - “peinture” sits inside “peintures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8376, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
peinture is recorded at frequency rank #2,049, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɛ̃.tyʁ\. peintures is at rank #6,327, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɛ̃.tyʁ\.
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 8376, this pair ranks #420,249 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of peinture vs peintures
Shared letters: einprtu. Private to "peinture": -. Private to "peintures": s.
"peinture" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV · "peintures" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "peinture" and "peintures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "peinture" vs "peintures" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "peinture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "peintures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #420,249 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "peinture" and "peintures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "peintures vs pointures". 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 #420,249 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.