Which to use
“piégés” is a verb and “pintes” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #25,767
- “piégés” frequency rank
- #44,096
- “pintes” frequency rank
- 69863
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | piégés | pintes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin pluriel de piéger. | Pluriel de pinte. |
Where the eye mixes piégés and pintes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. piégés (CVVCVC) and pintes (CVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: piégés vs pintes
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: piégés is \pje.ʒe\ while pintes is \pɛ̃t\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69863, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
piégés is recorded at frequency rank #25,767, classified as averb, pronounced \pje.ʒe\. pintes is at rank #44,096, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɛ̃t\.
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 69863, this pair ranks #53,506 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of piégés vs pintes
Shared letters: ips. Private to "piégés": gé. Private to "pintes": ent.
"piégés" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "pintes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- pintes ← ipntes · pinets · pinntes · pintess · pintse · pinttes · pitnes · pnites
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "piégés" and "pintes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "piégés" or "pintes" show up more?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "piégés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "pintes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #53,506 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "piégés" and "pintes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pintes vs pontet". 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 #53,506 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.