Which to use
“victime” and “victimes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,307
- “victime” frequency rank
- #1,382
- “victimes” frequency rank
- 2689
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | victime | victimes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Créature vivante offerte en sacrifice à la divinité. | Pluriel de victime. |
Same sound, different letters: victime vs victimes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. victime runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against victimes's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - victime and victimes
This is the hard kind. victime and victimes are pronounced identically (\vik.tim\) 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) - “victime” sits inside “victimes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2689, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
victime is recorded at frequency rank #1,307, classified as anoun, pronounced \vik.tim\. victimes is at rank #1,382, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vik.tim\.
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 2689, this pair ranks #435,655 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of victime vs victimes
Shared letters: ceimtv. Private to "victime": -. Private to "victimes": s.
"victime" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "victimes" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "victime" vs "victimes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"victime" and "victimes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "victime" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "victimes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #435,655 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "victime" and "victimes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vicaire vs victime". 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 #435,655 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.