Which to use
“ratés” and “roses” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,980
- “ratés” frequency rank
- #4,984
- “roses” frequency rank
- 21964
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ratés | roses |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Masculin pluriel de raté. | Pluriel de rose. |
Where the eye mixes ratés and roses
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. ratés and roses follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between ratés and roses
A purely visual mix-up. ratés (\ʁa.te\) and roses (\ʁoz\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21964, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ratés is recorded at frequency rank #16,980, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁa.te\. roses is at rank #4,984, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁoz\.
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 21964, this pair ranks #360,501 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of ratés vs roses
Shared letters: rs. Private to "ratés": até. Private to "roses": eo.
"ratés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "roses" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- roses ← orses · roess · rosess · rosses · rroses · rsoes
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "ratés" and "roses" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "ratés" vs "roses" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "ratés" and "roses" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "ratés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "roses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #360,501 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ratés" and "roses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "râles vs ratés". 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 #360,501 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.