Which to use
“timide” and “timides” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,666
- “timide” frequency rank
- #17,291
- “timides” frequency rank
- 23957
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | timide | timides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est craintif, qui manque de hardiesse, d’assurance. | Pluriel de timide. |
Same sound, different letters: timide vs timides
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: timide vs timides
This is the hard kind. timide and timides are pronounced identically (\ti.mid\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “timide” sits inside “timides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23957, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
timide is recorded at frequency rank #6,666, classified as anadj, pronounced \ti.mid\. timides is at rank #17,291, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ti.mid\.
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 23957, this pair ranks #349,483 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of timide vs timides
Shared letters: deimt. Private to "timide": -. Private to "timides": s.
"timide" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "timides" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "timide" and "timides" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "timide" vs "timides" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"timide" and "timides" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "timide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "timides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #349,483 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "timide" and "timides" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "timbré vs timide". 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 #349,483 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.