Which to use
“admin” and “admins” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,729
- “admin” frequency rank
- #45,413
- “admins” frequency rank
- 65142
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | admin | admins |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Administrateur, administratrice. | Pluriel de admin. |
Same sound, different letters: admin vs admins
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: admin vs admins
This is the hard kind. admin and admins are pronounced identically (\ad.min\) 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) - “admin” sits inside “admins”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65142, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
admin is recorded at frequency rank #19,729, classified as anoun, pronounced \ad.min\. admins is at rank #45,413, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ad.min\.
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 65142, this pair ranks #73,660 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of admin vs admins
Shared letters: adimn. Private to "admin": -. Private to "admins": s.
"admin" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC · "admins" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "admin" for "admins" ever safe?
Frequency check: "admin" vs "admins" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"admin" and "admins" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "admin" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "admins" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #73,660 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "admin" and "admins" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admins vs ains". 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 #73,660 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.