Which to use
“texte” and “textes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #701
- “texte” frequency rank
- #1,642
- “textes” frequency rank
- 2343
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | texte | textes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Suite ordonnée de mots écrits. | Pluriel de texte. |
Same sound, different letters: texte vs textes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - texte / textes
This is the hard kind. texte and textes 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) - “texte” sits inside “textes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2343, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
texte is recorded at frequency rank #701, classified as anoun, pronounced \tɛkst\. textes is at rank #1,642, 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 2343, this pair ranks #436,314 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of texte vs textes
Shared letters: etx. Private to "texte": -. Private to "textes": s.
"texte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "textes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "texte" and "textes" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "texte" vs "textes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"texte" and "textes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "texte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "textes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #436,314 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "texte" and "textes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "taxées vs textes". 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 #436,314 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.