Which to use
“bile” and “bills” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,905
- “bile” frequency rank
- #38,677
- “bills” frequency rank
- 64582
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bile | bills |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Humeur sécrétée par le foie et stockée dans la vésicule biliaire. | Pluriel de bill. |
Same sound, different letters: bile vs bills
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters.
Homophone desk: bile vs bills
This is the hard kind. bile and bills are pronounced identically (\bil\) 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64582, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bile is recorded at frequency rank #25,905, classified as anoun, pronounced \bil\. bills is at rank #38,677, tagged as anoun, pronounced \bil\.
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 64582, this pair ranks #76,350 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of bile vs bills
Shared letters: bil. Private to "bile": e. Private to "bills": s.
"bile" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "bills" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "bile" and "bills" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "bile" or "bills" show up more?
Useful next steps
"bile" and "bills" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "bile" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bills" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #76,350 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bile" and "bills" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bibles vs bills". 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 #76,350 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.