postéesvspostsTell them apart

Quick tell: postées is a adjective, posts is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“postées” is an adjective and “posts” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#29,919
“postées” frequency rank
#15,215
“posts” frequency rank
45134
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature postées posts
Definition Féminin pluriel de posté. Pluriel de post.

Where the eye mixes postées and posts

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

7 ch
postées
5 ch
posts

Visual trap between postées and posts

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: postées is \pɔs.te\ while posts is \pɔst\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45134, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

postées is recorded at frequency rank #29,919, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɔs.te\. posts is at rank #15,215, 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 45134, this pair ranks #205,128 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of postées vs posts

Shared letters: opst. Private to "postées": . Private to "posts": -.

"postées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC  ·  "posts" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • postsopsts · possts · postss · postts · pposts · psots

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "postées" and "posts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "postées" is an adjective and "posts" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "postées" or "posts" show up more?
"posts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,215 in our French list, against #29,919 for "postées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "postées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "posts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #205,128 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "postées" and "posts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "postées vs postier". 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 #205,128 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