Which to use
“psychopathe” and “psychopathes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,011
- “psychopathe” frequency rank
- #27,921
- “psychopathes” frequency rank
- 42932
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | psychopathe | psychopathes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est atteint de psychopathie. | Pluriel de psychopathe. |
Same sound, different letters: psychopathe vs psychopathes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. psychopathe runs 11 letters (CCVCCVCVCCV) against psychopathes's 12 (CCVCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - psychopathe and psychopathes
This is the hard kind. psychopathe and psychopathes are pronounced identically (\psi.kɔ.pat\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “psychopathe” sits inside “psychopathes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42932, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
psychopathe is recorded at frequency rank #15,011, classified as anadj, pronounced \psi.kɔ.pat\. psychopathes is at rank #27,921, tagged as anadj, pronounced \psi.kɔ.pat\.
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 42932, this pair ranks #221,832 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of psychopathe vs psychopathes
Shared letters: acehopsty. Private to "psychopathe": -. Private to "psychopathes": -.
"psychopathe" · 11 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCCV · "psychopathes" · 12 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- psychopathe ← ppsychopathe · pscyhopathe · pssychopathe · psycchopathe · psychhopathe · psychoapthe · psychopahte · psychopateh
- psychopathes ← ppsychopathes · pscyhopathes · pssychopathes · psycchopathes · psychhopathes · psychoapthes · psychopahtes · psychopatehs
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "psychopathe" / "psychopathes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "psychopathe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "psychopathes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #221,832 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- 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 #221,832 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.