Which to use
“sentimental” and “sentimentales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,594
- “sentimental” frequency rank
- #36,157
- “sentimentales” frequency rank
- 54751
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sentimental | sentimentales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Où il y a du sentiment ; qui annonce du sentiment ; qui tient du sentiment. | Féminin pluriel de sentimental. |
Same sound, different letters: sentimental vs sentimentales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. sentimental runs 11 letters (CVCCVCVCCVC) against sentimentales's 13 (CVCCVCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - sentimental / sentimentales
This is the hard kind. sentimental and sentimentales are pronounced identically (\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.tal\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “sentimental” sits inside “sentimentales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54751, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sentimental is recorded at frequency rank #18,594, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.tal\. sentimentales is at rank #36,157, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.tal\.
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 54751, this pair ranks #131,937 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sentimental vs sentimentales
Shared letters: aeilmnst. Private to "sentimental": -. Private to "sentimentales": -.
"sentimental" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCVC · "sentimentales" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- sentimental ← esntimental · senitmental · senntimental · sentiemntal · sentimenatl · sentimenntal · sentimentall · sentimentla
- sentimentales ← esntimentales · senitmentales · senntimentales · sentiemntales · sentimenatles · sentimenntales · sentimentaels · sentimentaless
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "sentimental" for "sentimentales" ever safe?
Which is more common, "sentimental" or "sentimentales"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "sentimental" / "sentimentales". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "sentimental" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sentimentales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #131,937 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sentimental" and "sentimentales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sentimental vs sentimentaux". 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 #131,937 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.