Which to use
“autre” and “autres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #96
- “autre” frequency rank
- #91
- “autres” frequency rank
- 187
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | autre | autres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Du même type mais dont l’identité est différente de ce dont on vient de parler. | Pluriel de autre. |
Same sound, different letters: autre vs autres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - autre and autres
This is the hard kind. autre and autres are pronounced identically (\otʁ\) 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) - “autre” sits inside “autres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 187, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
autre is recorded at frequency rank #96, classified as anadj, pronounced \otʁ\. autres is at rank #91, tagged as anadj, pronounced \otʁ\.
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 187, this pair ranks #439,997 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of autre vs autres
Shared letters: aertu. Private to "autre": -. Private to "autres": s.
"autre" · 5 letters · shape VVCCV · "autres" · 6 letters · shape VVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "autre" and "autres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "autre" or "autres" show up more?
Useful next steps
"autre" and "autres" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "autre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "autres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #439,997 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "autre" and "autres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aur vs autre". 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 #439,997 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.