postentvspostsTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#22,655
“postent” frequency rank
#15,215
“posts” frequency rank
37870
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature postent posts
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de poster. Pluriel de post.

Same sound, different letters: postent vs posts

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters.

7 ch
postent
5 ch
posts

Homophone desk: postent vs posts

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: postent and posts carry the same recorded pronunciation, \pɔst\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anoun, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37870, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

postent is recorded at frequency rank #22,655, classified as averb, pronounced \pɔst\. 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 37870, this pair ranks #259,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of postent vs posts

Shared letters: opst. Private to "postent": en. Private to "posts": -.

"postent" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "posts" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • postentopstent · posetnt · posstent · postennt · postentt · postetn · postnet · posttent
  • postsopsts · possts · postss · postts · pposts · psots

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "postent" and "posts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "postent" is a verb and "posts" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "postent" or "posts"?
"posts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,215 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.

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 "postent" 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 #259,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "postent" and "posts" 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 #259,379 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