Which to use
“arrogant” and “arrogants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,068
- “arrogant” frequency rank
- #34,423
- “arrogants” frequency rank
- 50491
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | arrogant | arrogants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui montre de l’arrogance. | Masculin pluriel de arrogant. |
Same sound, different letters: arrogant vs arrogants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. arrogant runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCC) against arrogants's 9 (VCCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: arrogant vs arrogants
This is the hard kind. arrogant and arrogants are pronounced identically (\a.ʁɔ.ɡɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “arrogant” sits inside “arrogants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50491, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
arrogant is recorded at frequency rank #16,068, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʁɔ.ɡɑ̃\. arrogants is at rank #34,423, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ʁɔ.ɡɑ̃\.
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 50491, this pair ranks #162,202 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of arrogant vs arrogants
Shared letters: agnort. Private to "arrogant": -. Private to "arrogants": s.
"arrogant" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC · "arrogants" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "arrogant" and "arrogants" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "arrogant" or "arrogants"?
Useful next steps
"arrogant" and "arrogants" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "arrogant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "arrogants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #162,202 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "arrogant" and "arrogants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "arrogante vs arrogants". 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 #162,202 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.