aqueduc vs aqueducs, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“aqueduc” and “aqueducs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#22,484
“aqueduc” frequency rank: #44,866
“aqueducs” frequency rank: 67350
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	aqueduc	aqueducs
Definition	Canal ou conduite en maçonnerie (visible quand elle est surélevée) destinée à apporter de l’eau potable dans une ville, malgré la distance et la dénivelée entre la source et la ville.	Pluriel de aqueduc.

Same sound, different letters: aqueduc vs aqueducs

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. aqueduc runs 7 letters (VCVVCVC) against aqueducs's 8 (VCVVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch

aqueduc

8 ch

aqueducs

Same sound, different spelling - aqueduc / aqueducs

This is the hard kind. aqueduc and aqueducs are pronounced identically (\ak.dyk\) 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) - “aqueduc” sits inside “aqueducs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67350, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aqueduc is recorded at frequency rank #22,484, classified as anoun, pronounced \ak.dyk\. aqueducs is at rank #44,866, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ak.dyk\.

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 67350, this pair ranks #63,807 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of aqueduc vs aqueducs

Shared letters: acdequ. Private to "aqueduc": -. Private to "aqueducs": s.

"aqueduc" · 7 letters · shape VCVVCVC · "aqueducs" · 8 letters · shape VCVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

aqueduc ← aqeuduc · aqqueduc · aqudeuc · aquedcu · aquedduc · aqueducc · aqueudc · auqeduc
aqueducs ← aqeuducs · aqqueducs · aqudeucs · aquedcus · aquedducs · aqueduccs · aqueducss · aquedusc

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aqueduc" for "aqueducs" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\ak.dyk\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

In ordinary French text, does "aqueduc" or "aqueducs" show up more?

"aqueduc" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,484 in our French list, against #44,866 for "aqueducs". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"aqueduc" and "aqueducs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

Full dictionary entry for "aqueduc" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "aqueducs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #63,807 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
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 #63,807 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.