Which to use
“billes” and “bills” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,818
- “billes” frequency rank
- #38,677
- “bills” frequency rank
- 54495
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | billes | bills |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de bille. | Pluriel de bill. |
Where the eye mixes billes and bills
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. billes runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against bills's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: billes vs bills
A purely visual mix-up. billes (\bij\) and bills (\bil\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54495, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
billes is recorded at frequency rank #15,818, classified as anoun, pronounced \bij\. 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 54495, this pair ranks #133,632 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of billes vs bills
Shared letters: bils. Private to "billes": e. Private to "bills": -.
"billes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "bills" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "billes" and "bills" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "billes" or "bills"?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "billes" 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 #133,632 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "billes" 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 #133,632 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.