Which to use
“postulat” is a noun and “postulé” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #22,038
- “postulat” frequency rank
- #32,123
- “postulé” frequency rank
- 54161
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | postulat | postulé |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Proposition que le géomètre demande qu’on lui accorde au commencement d’une discussion, bien qu’elle ne soit ni démontrée ni évidente, parce qu’il ne voit pas d’autre principe auquel il puisse rattacher une vérité ou des vérités qu’on ne saurait mettre en doute. Autrement dit une proposition première indémontrable ou indémontrée, et que le mathématicien demande au lecteur d’accepter. Le postulat n’est pas forcément évident, contrairement à l’axiome. | Participe passé masculin singulier de postuler. |
Where the eye mixes postulat and postulé
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. postulat runs 8 letters (CVCCVCVC) against postulé's 7 (CVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between postulat and postulé
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: postulat is \pɔs.ty.la\ while postulé is \pɔs.ty.le\. 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 (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54161, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
postulat is recorded at frequency rank #22,038, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɔs.ty.la\. postulé is at rank #32,123, tagged as averb, pronounced \pɔs.ty.le\.
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 54161, this pair ranks #135,850 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of postulat vs postulé
Shared letters: lopstu. Private to "postulat": a. Private to "postulé": é.
"postulat" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC · "postulé" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- postulat ← opstulat · posstulat · postluat · posttulat · postualt · postulatt · postullat · postulta
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "postulat" and "postulé" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "postulat" or "postulé" show up more?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "postulat" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "postulé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #135,850 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "postulat" and "postulé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "postulants vs postulat". 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 #135,850 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.