Which to use
“pinte” and “pintes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,691
- “pinte” frequency rank
- #44,096
- “pintes” frequency rank
- 72787
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pinte | pintes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ancienne unité de mesure qui servait à mesurer le vin et autres liquides, et dont la valeur différait selon les lieux. À Paris elle valait 0,93 litre. | Pluriel de pinte. |
Same sound, different letters: pinte vs pintes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. pinte runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against pintes's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: pinte vs pintes
This is the hard kind. pinte and pintes are pronounced identically (\pɛ̃t\) 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) - “pinte” sits inside “pintes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72787, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pinte is recorded at frequency rank #28,691, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɛ̃t\. 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 72787, this pair ranks #42,779 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of pinte vs pintes
Shared letters: einpt. Private to "pinte": -. Private to "pintes": s.
"pinte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "pintes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "pinte" 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 #42,779 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pinte" 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 #42,779 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.