Which to use
“pintes” is a noun and “piqués” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #44,096
- “pintes” frequency rank
- #48,104
- “piqués” frequency rank
- 92200
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pintes | piqués |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de pinte. | Masculin pluriel de piqué. |
Where the eye mixes pintes and piqués
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses pintes with piqués
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: pintes is \pɛ̃t\ while piqués is \pi.ke\. 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 (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 92200, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pintes is recorded at frequency rank #44,096, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɛ̃t\. piqués is at rank #48,104, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pi.ke\.
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 92200, this pair ranks #3,195 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of pintes vs piqués
Shared letters: ips. Private to "pintes": ent. Private to "piqués": qué.
"pintes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "piqués" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- pintes ← ipntes · pinets · pinntes · pintess · pintse · pinttes · pitnes · pnites
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "pintes" for "piqués" ever safe?
Which is more common, "pintes" or "piqués"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "pintes" and "piqués" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "pintes" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "piqués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #3,195 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pintes" and "piqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pieuses vs piqués". 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 #3,195 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.