postéevspostentConfusable pair

Quick tell: postée is a adjective, postent is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“postée” is an adjective and “postent” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#19,947
“postée” frequency rank
#22,655
“postent” frequency rank
42602
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature postée postent
Definition Féminin singulier de posté. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de poster.

Where the eye mixes postée and postent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

6 ch
postée
7 ch
postent

Visual trap between postée and postent

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: postée is \pɔs.te\ while postent is \pɔst\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42602, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

postée is recorded at frequency rank #19,947, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɔs.te\. postent is at rank #22,655, tagged as averb, 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 42602, this pair ranks #224,378 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of postée vs postent

Shared letters: eopst. Private to "postée": é. Private to "postent": n.

"postée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "postent" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • postentopstent · posetnt · posstent · postennt · postentt · postetn · postnet · posttent

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "postée" and "postent" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "postée" is an adjective and "postent" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "postée" or "postent" show up more?
"postée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,947 in our French list, against #22,655 for "postent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "postée" and "postent" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "postée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "postent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #224,378 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "postée" and "postent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pontet vs postent". 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 #224,378 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list