Which to use
“télés” and “tête” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,420
- “télés” frequency rank
- #237
- “tête” frequency rank
- 24657
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | télés | tête |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de télé. | Partie supérieure du corps, qui est le siège du cerveau et des principaux organes des sens, et qui, chez l’être humain et chez la plupart des vertébrés, tient au reste du corps par le cou. |
Where the eye mixes télés and tête
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 1 letter in sequence. télés runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against tête's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: télés vs tête
A purely visual mix-up. télés (\te.le\) and tête (\tɛt\) 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 24657, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
télés is recorded at frequency rank #24,420, classified as anoun, pronounced \te.le\. tête is at rank #237, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tɛt\.
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 24657, this pair ranks #345,361 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of télés vs tête
Shared letters: t. Private to "télés": lsé. Private to "tête": eê.
"télés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "tête" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "télés" and "tête" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "télés" or "tête" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "télés" and "tête" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "télés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tête" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #345,361 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "télés" and "tête" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "télés vs terms". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #345,361 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.