Which to use
“appartement” and “appartements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,024
- “appartement” frequency rank
- #6,679
- “appartements” frequency rank
- 8703
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appartement | appartements |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ensemble de pièces formant une habitation indépendante dans un immeuble collectif. | Pluriel de appartement. |
Same sound, different letters: appartement vs appartements
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - appartement and appartements
This is the hard kind. appartement and appartements are pronounced identically (\a.paʁ.tə.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) - “appartement” sits inside “appartements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8703, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appartement is recorded at frequency rank #2,024, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\. appartements is at rank #6,679, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.paʁ.tə.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 8703, this pair ranks #419,118 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of appartement vs appartements
Shared letters: aemnprt. Private to "appartement": -. Private to "appartements": s.
"appartement" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVCC · "appartements" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- appartement ← apaprtement · apartement · apparetment · apparrtement · apparteemnt · appartemennt · appartementt · appartemetn
- appartements ← apaprtements · apartements · apparetments · apparrtements · apparteemnts · appartemennts · appartemenst · appartementss
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "appartement" and "appartements" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "appartement" or "appartements"?
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 "appartement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appartements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #419,118 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appartement" and "appartements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appartement vs appartenant". 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 #419,118 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.