Which to use
“bombardier” and “bombardiers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,723
- “bombardier” frequency rank
- #25,909
- “bombardiers” frequency rank
- 37632
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bombardier | bombardiers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Artilleur qui lance des bombes. | Pluriel de bombardier. |
Same sound, different letters: bombardier vs bombardiers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. bombardier runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVVC) against bombardiers's 11 (CVCCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - bombardier and bombardiers
This is the hard kind. bombardier and bombardiers are pronounced identically (\bɔ̃.baʁ.dje\) 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) - “bombardier” sits inside “bombardiers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37632, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bombardier is recorded at frequency rank #11,723, classified as anoun, pronounced \bɔ̃.baʁ.dje\. bombardiers is at rank #25,909, tagged as anoun, pronounced \bɔ̃.baʁ.dje\.
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 37632, this pair ranks #261,117 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of bombardier vs bombardiers
Shared letters: abdeimor. Private to "bombardier": -. Private to "bombardiers": s.
"bombardier" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC · "bombardiers" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- bombardier ← bbombardier · bmobardier · bobmardier · bomabrdier · bombadrier · bombarddier · bombardeir · bombardierr
- bombardiers ← bbombardiers · bmobardiers · bobmardiers · bomabrdiers · bombadriers · bombarddiers · bombardeirs · bombardierrs
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "bombardier" and "bombardiers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "bombardier" vs "bombardiers" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "bombardier" / "bombardiers". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "bombardier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bombardiers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #261,117 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bombardier" and "bombardiers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bombardés vs bombardiers". 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 #261,117 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.