titrervstitrésTell them apart

Quick tell: titrer is a verb, titrés is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“titrer” is a verb and “titrés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,399
“titrer” frequency rank
#47,072
“titrés” frequency rank
96471
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature titrer titrés
Definition Donner un titre honorifique à une personne, à une terre. Masculin pluriel de titré.

Same sound, different letters: titrer vs titrés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. titrer and titrés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
titrer
6 ch
titrés

Homophone desk: titrer vs titrés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: titrer and titrés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ti.tʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 96471, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

titrer is recorded at frequency rank #49,399, classified as averb, pronounced \ti.tʁe\. titrés is at rank #47,072, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tit.ʁe\.

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 96471, this pair ranks #657 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of titrer vs titrés

Shared letters: irt. Private to "titrer": e. Private to "titrés": sé.

"titrer" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "titrés" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • titrer ← ittrer · tirter · titerr · titrerr · titrrer · tittrer · ttitrer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "titrer" for "titrés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "titrer" is a verb and "titrés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "titrer" vs "titrés" - which ranks higher?
"titrés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #47,072 in our French list, against #49,399 for "titrer". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"titrer" and "titrés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "titrer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "titrés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #657 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "titrer" and "titrés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Tibre vs titrer". 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 #657 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