braceletvsbraceletsTell them apart

Which to use

“bracelet” and “bracelets” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#7,403
“bracelet” frequency rank
#13,121
“bracelets” frequency rank
20524
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bracelet bracelets
Definition Ornement qui se porte principalement au bras, autour du poignet. Pluriel de bracelet.

Same sound, different letters: bracelet vs bracelets

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

8 ch
bracelet
9 ch
bracelets

Homophone desk: bracelet vs bracelets

This is the hard kind. bracelet and bracelets are pronounced identically (\bʁas.lɛ\) 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) - “bracelet” sits inside “bracelets”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20524, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bracelet is recorded at frequency rank #7,403, classified as anoun, pronounced \bʁas.lɛ\. bracelets is at rank #13,121, tagged as anoun, pronounced \bʁas.lɛ\.

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 20524, this pair ranks #367,838 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of bracelet vs bracelets

Shared letters: abcelrt. Private to "bracelet": -. Private to "bracelets": s.

"bracelet" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCVC  ·  "bracelets" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • braceletbarcelet · bbracelet · braccelet · braceelt · bracelett · bracellet · bracelte · bracleet
  • braceletsbarcelets · bbracelets · braccelets · braceelts · bracelest · braceletss · braceletts · bracellets

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "bracelet" for "bracelets" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\bʁas.lɛ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "bracelet" or "bracelets" show up more?
"bracelet" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,403 in our French list, against #13,121 for "bracelets". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"bracelet" and "bracelets" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bracelet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "bracelets" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #367,838 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bracelet" and "bracelets" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Bachelet vs bracelet". 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 #367,838 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list