Which to use
“agression” and “agressions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,304
- “agression” frequency rank
- #7,515
- “agressions” frequency rank
- 11819
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | agression | agressions |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de celui qui agresse. | Pluriel de agression. |
Same sound, different letters: agression vs agressions
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - agression and agressions
This is the hard kind. agression and agressions are pronounced identically (\a.ɡʁe.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) - “agression” sits inside “agressions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11819, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
agression is recorded at frequency rank #4,304, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ɡʁe.sjɔ̃\. agressions is at rank #7,515, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.ɡʁe.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 11819, this pair ranks #407,674 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of agression vs agressions
Shared letters: aeginors. Private to "agression": -. Private to "agressions": -.
"agression" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "agressions" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- agression ← agerssion · aggression · agresion · agresison · agressino · agressionn · agressoin · agrression
- agressions ← agerssions · aggressions · agresions · agresisons · agressinos · agressionns · agressionss · agressiosn
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "agression" for "agressions" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "agression" or "agressions" show up more?
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 "agression" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "agressions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #407,674 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "agression" and "agressions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adressons vs agressions". 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 #407,674 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.