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“brasseur” and “brasseurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,079
- “brasseur” frequency rank
- #31,859
- “brasseurs” frequency rank
- 59938
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | brasseur | brasseurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne qui brasse de la bière et qui en vend en gros. | Pluriel de brasseur. |
Same sound, different letters: brasseur vs brasseurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. brasseur runs 8 letters (CCVCCVVC) against brasseurs's 9 (CCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - brasseur / brasseurs
This is the hard kind. brasseur and brasseurs are pronounced identically (\bʁa.sœʁ\) 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) - “brasseur” sits inside “brasseurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59938, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
brasseur is recorded at frequency rank #28,079, classified as anoun, pronounced \bʁa.sœʁ\. brasseurs is at rank #31,859, tagged as anoun, pronounced \bʁa.sœʁ\.
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 59938, this pair ranks #100,347 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of brasseur vs brasseurs
Shared letters: abersu. Private to "brasseur": -. Private to "brasseurs": -.
"brasseur" · 8 letters · shape CCVCCVVC · "brasseurs" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "brasseur" and "brasseurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "brasseur" or "brasseurs"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "brasseur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "brasseurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #100,347 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "brasseur" and "brasseurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bosseur vs brasseur". 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 #100,347 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.