Which to use
“tulipe” and “tulipes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,629
- “tulipe” frequency rank
- #36,630
- “tulipes” frequency rank
- 73259
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tulipe | tulipes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plante de la famille des liliacées, à racine bulbeuse, à tige haute, qui porte une belle fleur et dont il existe un très grand nombre de variétés. | Pluriel de tulipe. |
Same sound, different letters: tulipe vs tulipes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. tulipe runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against tulipes's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - tulipe and tulipes
This is the hard kind. tulipe and tulipes are pronounced identically (\ty.lip\) 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) - “tulipe” sits inside “tulipes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73259, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
tulipe is recorded at frequency rank #36,629, classified as anoun, pronounced \ty.lip\. tulipes is at rank #36,630, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ty.lip\.
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 73259, this pair ranks #41,082 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of tulipe vs tulipes
Shared letters: eilptu. Private to "tulipe": -. Private to "tulipes": s.
"tulipe" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "tulipes" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "tulipe" and "tulipes" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "tulipe" or "tulipes"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "tulipe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tulipes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #41,082 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tulipe" and "tulipes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tuile vs tulipe". 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 #41,082 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.