Which to use
“administration” and “administrations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #816
- “administration” frequency rank
- #7,926
- “administrations” frequency rank
- 8742
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | administration | administrations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’administrer ; direction ou conduite des affaires publiques ou particulières. | Pluriel de administration. |
Same sound, different letters: administration vs administrations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 14 letters. administration runs 14 letters (VCCVCVCCCVCVVC) against administrations's 15 (VCCVCVCCCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: administration vs administrations
This is the hard kind. administration and administrations are pronounced identically (\ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “administration” sits inside “administrations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8742, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
administration is recorded at frequency rank #816, classified as anoun, pronounced \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. administrations is at rank #7,926, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃\.
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 8742, this pair ranks #418,995 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of administration vs administrations
Shared letters: adimnorst. Private to "administration": -. Private to "administrations": -.
"administration" · 14 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVCVVC · "administrations" · 15 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- administration ← addministration · adimnistration · admiinstration · adminisrtation · adminisstration · administartion · administraiton · administratino
- administrations ← addministrations · adimnistrations · admiinstrations · adminisrtations · adminisstrations · administartions · administraitons · administratinos
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "administration" for "administrations" ever safe?
Frequency check: "administration" vs "administrations" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "administration" / "administrations". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "administration" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "administrations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #418,995 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "administration" and "administrations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "administratifs vs administrations". 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 #418,995 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.