textevstextesWhat's the difference?

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.

5 ch
texte
6 ch
textes

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

  • texteetxte · tetxe · texet · textte · texxte · ttexte · txete
  • textesetxtes · tetxes · texets · textess · textse · texttes · texxtes · ttextes

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "texte" and "textes" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\tɛkst\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "texte" vs "textes" - which ranks higher?
"texte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #701 in our French list, against #1,642 for "textes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list