Which to use
“bills” and “blés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #38,677
- “bills” frequency rank
- #34,899
- “blés” frequency rank
- 73576
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bills | blés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de bill. | Pluriel de blé. |
Where the eye mixes bills and blés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: bills vs blés
A purely visual mix-up. bills (\bil\) and blés (\ble\) 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 73576, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bills is recorded at frequency rank #38,677, classified as anoun, pronounced \bil\. blés is at rank #34,899, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ble\.
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 73576, this pair ranks #39,989 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of bills vs blés
Shared letters: bls. Private to "bills": i. Private to "blés": é.
"bills" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC · "blés" · 4 letters · shape CCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- bills ← bbills · billss · bils · bilsl · blils · iblls
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "bills" for "blés" ever safe?
Frequency check: "bills" vs "blés" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "bills" and "blés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "bills" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "blés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #39,989 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bills" and "blés" 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 #39,989 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.