Which to use
“audition” and “auditions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,528
- “audition” frequency rank
- #15,306
- “auditions” frequency rank
- 22834
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | audition | auditions |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’entendre. | Pluriel de audition. |
Same sound, different letters: audition vs auditions
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. audition runs 8 letters (VVCVCVVC) against auditions's 9 (VVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - audition and auditions
This is the hard kind. audition and auditions are pronounced identically (\o.di.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “audition” sits inside “auditions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22834, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
audition is recorded at frequency rank #7,528, classified as anoun, pronounced \o.di.sjɔ̃\. auditions is at rank #15,306, tagged as anoun, pronounced \o.di.sjɔ̃\.
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 22834, this pair ranks #355,908 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of audition vs auditions
Shared letters: adinotu. Private to "audition": -. Private to "auditions": s.
"audition" · 8 letters · shape VVCVCVVC · "auditions" · 9 letters · shape VVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "audition" for "auditions" ever safe?
Which is more common, "audition" or "auditions"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "audition" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "auditions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #355,908 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "audition" and "auditions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "auditions vs auditives". 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 #355,908 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.