Which to use
“armature” and “armatures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,696
- “armature” frequency rank
- #40,601
- “armatures” frequency rank
- 68297
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | armature | armatures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ensemble des pièces de bois ou de métal qui servent à maintenir les parties d’un ouvrage, en construction ou achevé : | Pluriel de armature. |
Same sound, different letters: armature vs armatures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. armature runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCV) against armatures's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - armature and armatures
This is the hard kind. armature and armatures are pronounced identically (\aʁ.ma.tyʁ\) 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) - “armature” sits inside “armatures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68297, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
armature is recorded at frequency rank #27,696, classified as anoun, pronounced \aʁ.ma.tyʁ\. armatures is at rank #40,601, tagged as anoun, pronounced \aʁ.ma.tyʁ\.
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 68297, this pair ranks #59,740 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of armature vs armatures
Shared letters: aemrtu. Private to "armature": -. Private to "armatures": s.
"armature" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV · "armatures" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "armature" / "armatures". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "armature" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "armatures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #59,740 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "armature" and "armatures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "armateurs vs armatures". 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 #59,740 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.