Which to use
“teinture” and “teintures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,339
- “teinture” frequency rank
- #41,037
- “teintures” frequency rank
- 59376
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | teinture | teintures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Liquide préparé pour teindre. | Pluriel de teinture. |
Same sound, different letters: teinture vs teintures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. teinture runs 8 letters (CVVCCVCV) against teintures's 9 (CVVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - teinture / teintures
This is the hard kind. teinture and teintures are pronounced identically (\tɛ̃.tyʁ\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “teinture” sits inside “teintures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59376, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
teinture is recorded at frequency rank #18,339, classified as anoun, pronounced \tɛ̃.tyʁ\. teintures is at rank #41,037, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tɛ̃.tyʁ\.
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 59376, this pair ranks #103,529 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of teinture vs teintures
Shared letters: einrtu. Private to "teinture": -. Private to "teintures": s.
"teinture" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV · "teintures" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "teinture" and "teintures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "teinture" or "teintures" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "teinture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "teintures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #103,529 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "teinture" and "teintures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "teintées vs teintures". 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 #103,529 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.