Which to use
“alignement” and “alignements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,985
- “alignement” frequency rank
- #40,589
- “alignements” frequency rank
- 51574
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | alignement | alignements |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’aligner. | Pluriel de alignement. |
Same sound, different letters: alignement vs alignements
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - alignement / alignements
This is the hard kind. alignement and alignements are pronounced identically (\a.li.ɲə.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) - “alignement” sits inside “alignements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51574, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
alignement is recorded at frequency rank #10,985, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.li.ɲə.mɑ̃\. alignements is at rank #40,589, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.li.ɲə.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 51574, this pair ranks #154,000 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of alignement vs alignements
Shared letters: aegilmnt. Private to "alignement": -. Private to "alignements": s.
"alignement" · 10 letters · shape VCVCCVCVCC · "alignements" · 11 letters · shape VCVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- alignement ← ailgnement · alginement · aligenment · aliggnement · aligneemnt · alignemennt · alignementt · alignemetn
- alignements ← ailgnements · alginements · aligenments · aliggnements · aligneemnts · alignemennts · alignemenst · alignementss
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "alignement" for "alignements" ever safe?
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After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "alignement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "alignements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #154,000 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "alignement" and "alignements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alignement vs alignent". 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 #154,000 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.