Which to use
“boulanger” and “boulangers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,646
- “boulanger” frequency rank
- #30,920
- “boulangers” frequency rank
- 41566
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | boulanger | boulangers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif à la boulangerie, à la fabrication du pain. | Masculin pluriel de boulanger. |
Same sound, different letters: boulanger vs boulangers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. boulanger runs 9 letters (CVVCVCCVC) against boulangers's 10 (CVVCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: boulanger vs boulangers
This is the hard kind. boulanger and boulangers are pronounced identically (\bu.lɑ̃.ʒe\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “boulanger” sits inside “boulangers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41566, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
boulanger is recorded at frequency rank #10,646, classified as anadj, pronounced \bu.lɑ̃.ʒe\. boulangers is at rank #30,920, tagged as anadj, pronounced \bu.lɑ̃.ʒe\.
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 41566, this pair ranks #232,179 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of boulanger vs boulangers
Shared letters: abeglnoru. Private to "boulanger": -. Private to "boulangers": s.
"boulanger" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCCVC · "boulangers" · 10 letters · shape CVVCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- boulanger ← bboulanger · boluanger · boualnger · boulagner · boulanegr · boulangerr · boulangger · boulangre
- boulangers ← bboulangers · boluangers · boualngers · boulagners · boulanegrs · boulangerrs · boulangerss · boulangesr
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "boulanger" and "boulangers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "boulanger" vs "boulangers" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"boulanger" and "boulangers" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "boulanger" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "boulangers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #232,179 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "boulanger" and "boulangers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "boulangère vs boulangers". 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 #232,179 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.