Which to use
“agriculteur” and “agriculteurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,517
- “agriculteur” frequency rank
- #4,545
- “agriculteurs” frequency rank
- 16062
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | agriculteur | agriculteurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Homme qui, à titre professionnel, cultive la terre ou élève des animaux destinés à être consommés. | Pluriel de agriculteur. |
Same sound, different letters: agriculteur vs agriculteurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. agriculteur runs 11 letters (VCCVCVCCVVC) against agriculteurs's 12 (VCCVCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - agriculteur and agriculteurs
This is the hard kind. agriculteur and agriculteurs are pronounced identically (\a.ɡʁi.kyl.tœʁ\) 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) - “agriculteur” sits inside “agriculteurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16062, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
agriculteur is recorded at frequency rank #11,517, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tœʁ\. agriculteurs is at rank #4,545, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.ɡʁi.kyl.tœʁ\.
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 16062, this pair ranks #389,564 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of agriculteur vs agriculteurs
Shared letters: acegilrtu. Private to "agriculteur": -. Private to "agriculteurs": s.
"agriculteur" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVVC · "agriculteurs" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- agriculteur ← aggriculteur · agirculteur · agrciulteur · agricculteur · agricluteur · agriculetur · agricullteur · agriculteru
- agriculteurs ← aggriculteurs · agirculteurs · agrciulteurs · agricculteurs · agricluteurs · agriculeturs · agricullteurs · agriculterus
Frequently Asked Questions
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What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "agriculteur" / "agriculteurs". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "agriculteur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "agriculteurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #389,564 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "agriculteur" and "agriculteurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agriculteur vs apiculteur". 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 #389,564 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.