Which to use
“singe” and “site” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,628
- “singe” frequency rank
- #286
- “site” frequency rank
- 7914
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | singe | site |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mammifère de l’ordre des Primates, hors l’Homme, hors le lémurien. | Situation du lieu ou du terrain où s’élèvent une ville, un village, une station, un monument, etc., manière dont l’objet géographique se situe dans le lieu qu’il occupe par rapport à son environnement immédiat. |
Where the eye mixes singe and site
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: singe vs site
A purely visual mix-up. singe (\sɛ̃ʒ\) and site (\sit\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7914, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
singe is recorded at frequency rank #7,628, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɛ̃ʒ\. site is at rank #286, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sit\.
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 7914, this pair ranks #421,730 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of singe vs site
Shared letters: eis. Private to "singe": gn. Private to "site": t.
"singe" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "site" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "singe" and "site" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "singe" vs "site" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "singe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "site" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #421,730 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "singe" and "site" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sind vs singe". 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 #421,730 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.