Which to use
“poste” and “postes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #695
- “poste” frequency rank
- #2,192
- “postes” frequency rank
- 2887
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | poste | postes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Établissement de chevaux qui était autrefois placé de distance en distance, pour le service des voyageurs. | Pluriel de poste. |
Same sound, different letters: poste vs postes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - poste and postes
This is the hard kind. poste and postes are pronounced identically (\pɔst\) 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) - “poste” sits inside “postes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2887, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
poste is recorded at frequency rank #695, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɔst\. postes is at rank #2,192, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɔst\.
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 2887, this pair ranks #435,280 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of poste vs postes
Shared letters: eopst. Private to "poste": -. Private to "postes": -.
"poste" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "postes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "poste" and "postes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "poste" or "postes"?
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 "poste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "postes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #435,280 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "poste" and "postes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pontet vs postes". 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 #435,280 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.