Which to use
“béquille” and “béquilles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #30,503
- “béquille” frequency rank
- #27,712
- “béquilles” frequency rank
- 58215
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | béquille | béquilles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Canne surmontée d’un support de l’aisselle ou de l’avant-bras, souvent utilisée par paire, pour assister à la tenue debout et à la marche d’une personne dont l’une des jambes ne peut servir d’appui. | Pluriel de béquille. |
Same sound, different letters: béquille vs béquilles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. béquille runs 8 letters (CVCVVCCV) against béquilles's 9 (CVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: béquille vs béquilles
This is the hard kind. béquille and béquilles are pronounced identically (\be.kij\) 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) - “béquille” sits inside “béquilles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58215, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
béquille is recorded at frequency rank #30,503, classified as anoun, pronounced \be.kij\. béquilles is at rank #27,712, tagged as anoun, pronounced \be.kij\.
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 58215, this pair ranks #110,363 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of béquille vs béquilles
Shared letters: beilqué. Private to "béquille": -. Private to "béquilles": s.
"béquille" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV · "béquilles" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "béquille" and "béquilles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "béquille" or "béquilles"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "béquille" / "béquilles". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "béquille" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "béquilles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #110,363 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "béquille" and "béquilles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "béquille vs bouille". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #110,363 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.