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“agrément” and “agréments” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#11,518
“agrément” frequency rank
#45,420
“agréments” frequency rank
56938
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agrément agréments
Definition Action d’agréer. Pluriel de agrément.

Same sound, different letters: agrément vs agréments

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. agrément runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCC) against agréments's 9 (VCCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
agrément
9 ch
agréments

Homophone desk: agrément vs agréments

This is the hard kind. agrément and agréments are pronounced identically (\a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃\) 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) - “agrément” sits inside “agréments”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56938, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agrément is recorded at frequency rank #11,518, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃\. agréments is at rank #45,420, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃\.

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 56938, this pair ranks #118,033 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of agrément vs agréments

Shared letters: aegmnrté. Private to "agrément": -. Private to "agréments": s.

"agrément" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC  ·  "agréments" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "agrément" and "agréments" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.ɡʁe.mɑ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "agrément" vs "agréments" - which ranks higher?
"agrément" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,518 in our French list, against #45,420 for "agréments". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "agrément" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "agréments" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #118,033 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agrément" and "agréments" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agréments vs âprement". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #118,033 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list