Which to use
“abricot” and “abricots” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #35,351
- “abricot” frequency rank
- #37,141
- “abricots” frequency rank
- 72492
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | abricot | abricots |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fruit charnu de l’abricotier, de forme arrondie. C'est une drupe, il possède un noyau dur non comestible (car toxique), qui contient une graine, appelée amande. La couleur de sa peau velouté varie du jaune, au orange et jusqu’au rouge. Sucré et peu juteux et il se consomme principalement frais, séché ou en confiture. | Pluriel de abricot. |
Same sound, different letters: abricot vs abricots
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - abricot / abricots
This is the hard kind. abricot and abricots are pronounced identically (\a.bʁi.ko\) 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) - “abricot” sits inside “abricots”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72492, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
abricot is recorded at frequency rank #35,351, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.bʁi.ko\. abricots is at rank #37,141, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.bʁi.ko\.
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 72492, this pair ranks #43,807 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of abricot vs abricots
Shared letters: abciort. Private to "abricot": -. Private to "abricots": s.
"abricot" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC · "abricots" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "abricot" vs "abricots" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "abricot" / "abricots". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "abricot" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "abricots" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #43,807 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- 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 #43,807 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.