Which to use
“archer” and “archers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,070
- “archer” frequency rank
- #23,104
- “archers” frequency rank
- 40174
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | archer | archers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Tireur, tireuse à l’arc, ou par extension, à l’arbalète. | Pluriel de archer. |
Same sound, different letters: archer vs archers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. archer runs 6 letters (VCCCVC) against archers's 7 (VCCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: archer vs archers
This is the hard kind. archer and archers are pronounced identically (\aʁ.ʃe\) 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) - “archer” sits inside “archers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40174, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
archer is recorded at frequency rank #17,070, classified as anoun, pronounced \aʁ.ʃe\. archers is at rank #23,104, tagged as anoun, pronounced \aʁ.ʃe\.
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 40174, this pair ranks #242,464 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of archer vs archers
Shared letters: acehr. Private to "archer": -. Private to "archers": s.
"archer" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC · "archers" · 7 letters · shape VCCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "archer" for "archers" ever safe?
Which is more common, "archer" or "archers"?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "archer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "archers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #242,464 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "archer" and "archers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "archers vs archet". 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 #242,464 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.