Which to use
“amendement” and “amendements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,162
- “amendement” frequency rank
- #11,704
- “amendements” frequency rank
- 17866
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | amendement | amendements |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’amender et résultat de cette action. | Pluriel de amendement. |
Same sound, different letters: amendement vs amendements
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - amendement and amendements
This is the hard kind. amendement and amendements are pronounced identically (\a.mɑ̃d.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) - “amendement” sits inside “amendements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17866, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
amendement is recorded at frequency rank #6,162, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.mɑ̃d.mɑ̃\. amendements is at rank #11,704, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.mɑ̃d.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 17866, this pair ranks #381,081 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of amendement vs amendements
Shared letters: ademnt. Private to "amendement": -. Private to "amendements": s.
"amendement" · 10 letters · shape VCVCCVCVCC · "amendements" · 11 letters · shape VCVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- amendement ← aemndement · amednement · amenddement · amendeemnt · amendemennt · amendementt · amendemetn · amendemment
- amendements ← aemndements · amednements · amenddements · amendeemnts · amendemennts · amendemenst · amendementss · amendementts
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "amendement" for "amendements" ever safe?
Frequency check: "amendement" vs "amendements" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "amendement" / "amendements". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "amendement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "amendements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #381,081 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "amendement" and "amendements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "amendement vs amèrement". 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 #381,081 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.