testésvstexteWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: testés is a verb, texte is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“testés” is a verb and “texte” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#21,186
“testés” frequency rank
#701
“texte” frequency rank
21887
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature testés texte
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbetester. Suite ordonnée de mots écrits.

Where the eye mixes testés and texte

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. testés runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against texte's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
testés
5 ch
texte

Look-alike desk: testés vs texte

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: testés is \tɛs.te\ while texte is \tɛkst\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21887, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

testés is recorded at frequency rank #21,186, classified as averb, pronounced \tɛs.te\. texte is at rank #701, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tɛkst\.

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 21887, this pair ranks #360,920 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of testés vs texte

Shared letters: et. Private to "testés": sé. Private to "texte": x.

"testés" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "texte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • texte ← etxte · tetxe · texet · textte · texxte · ttexte · txete

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "testés" and "texte" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "testés" is a verb and "texte" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "testés" or "texte" show up more?
"texte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #701 in our French list, against #21,186 for "testés". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "testés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "texte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #360,920 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "testés" and "texte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "testa vs testés". 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 #360,920 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list