Which to use
“pirater” and “piratés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,104
- “pirater” frequency rank
- #45,228
- “piratés” frequency rank
- 64332
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pirater | piratés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Faire le métier de pirate. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de pirater. |
Same sound, different letters: pirater vs piratés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. pirater and piratés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - pirater and piratés
This is the hard kind. pirater and piratés are pronounced identically (\pi.ʁa.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64332, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pirater is recorded at frequency rank #19,104, classified as averb, pronounced \pi.ʁa.te\. piratés is at rank #45,228, tagged as averb, pronounced \pi.ʁa.te\.
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 64332, this pair ranks #77,567 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of pirater vs piratés
Shared letters: aiprt. Private to "pirater": e. Private to "piratés": sé.
"pirater" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "piratés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- pirater ← iprater · piarter · piraetr · piraterr · piratre · piratter · pirrater · pirtaer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "pirater" and "piratés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "pirater" or "piratés" show up more?
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 "pirater" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "piratés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #77,567 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pirater" and "piratés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pintes vs piratés". 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 #77,567 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.