Which to use
“Text” and “texte” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,005
- “Text” frequency rank
- #701
- “texte” frequency rank
- 20706
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Text | texte |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Texte, suite ordonnée de mots écrits. | Suite ordonnée de mots écrits. |
Same sound, different letters: Text vs texte
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters.
Homophone desk: Text vs texte
This is the hard kind. Text and texte are pronounced identically (\tɛkst\) 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) - “Text” sits inside “texte”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20706, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
Text is recorded at frequency rank #20,005, classified as anoun, pronounced \tɛkst\. 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 20706, this pair ranks #366,913 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of Text vs texte
Shared letters: etx. Private to "Text": -. Private to "texte": -.
"Text" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "texte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "Text" and "texte" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "Text" or "texte"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "Text" / "texte". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "Text" 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 #366,913 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "Text" and "texte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "testa vs Text". 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 #366,913 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.