Which to use
“bandage” and “bandages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,242
- “bandage” frequency rank
- #40,134
- “bandages” frequency rank
- 69376
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bandage | bandages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de bander quelque chose, de le tendre. | Pluriel de bandage. |
Same sound, different letters: bandage vs bandages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. bandage runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against bandages's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: bandage vs bandages
This is the hard kind. bandage and bandages are pronounced identically (\bɑ̃.daʒ\) 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) - “bandage” sits inside “bandages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69376, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bandage is recorded at frequency rank #29,242, classified as anoun, pronounced \bɑ̃.daʒ\. bandages is at rank #40,134, tagged as anoun, pronounced \bɑ̃.daʒ\.
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 69376, this pair ranks #55,361 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of bandage vs bandages
Shared letters: abdegn. Private to "bandage": -. Private to "bandages": s.
"bandage" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "bandages" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "bandage" and "bandages" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "bandage" or "bandages"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "bandage" / "bandages". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "bandage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bandages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #55,361 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bandage" and "bandages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bandages vs bondage". 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 #55,361 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.