Which to use
“artilleur” and “artilleurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #44,308
- “artilleur” frequency rank
- #43,778
- “artilleurs” frequency rank
- 88086
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | artilleur | artilleurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Soldat employé au service de l’artillerie. | Pluriel de artilleur. |
Same sound, different letters: artilleur vs artilleurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. artilleur runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVVC) against artilleurs's 10 (VCCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: artilleur vs artilleurs
This is the hard kind. artilleur and artilleurs are pronounced identically (\aʁ.ti.jœʁ\) 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) - “artilleur” sits inside “artilleurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 88086, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
artilleur is recorded at frequency rank #44,308, classified as anoun, pronounced \aʁ.ti.jœʁ\. artilleurs is at rank #43,778, tagged as anoun, pronounced \aʁ.ti.jœʁ\.
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 88086, this pair ranks #7,447 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of artilleur vs artilleurs
Shared letters: aeilrtu. Private to "artilleur": -. Private to "artilleurs": s.
"artilleur" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "artilleurs" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- artilleur ← aritlleur · arrtilleur · artilelur · artileur · artilleru · artilleurr · artilluer · artlileur
- artilleurs ← aritlleurs · arrtilleurs · artilelurs · artileurs · artillerus · artilleurrs · artilleurss · artilleusr
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "artilleur" and "artilleurs" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "artilleur" or "artilleurs"?
Useful next steps
"artilleur" and "artilleurs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "artilleur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "artilleurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #7,447 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "artilleur" and "artilleurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ailleurs vs artilleurs". 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 #7,447 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.