Which to use
“breton” and “bretons” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,428
- “breton” frequency rank
- #8,506
- “bretons” frequency rank
- 13934
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | breton | bretons |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif à la Bretagne, ses habitants, sa langue, ou sa culture. | Masculin pluriel de breton. |
Same sound, different letters: breton vs bretons
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. breton runs 6 letters (CCVCVC) against bretons's 7 (CCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: breton vs bretons
This is the hard kind. breton and bretons are pronounced identically (\bʁə.tɔ̃\) 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) - “breton” sits inside “bretons”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13934, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
breton is recorded at frequency rank #5,428, classified as anadj, pronounced \bʁə.tɔ̃\. bretons is at rank #8,506, tagged as anadj, pronounced \bʁə.tɔ̃\.
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 13934, this pair ranks #398,900 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of breton vs bretons
Shared letters: benort. Private to "breton": -. Private to "bretons": s.
"breton" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC · "bretons" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "breton" and "bretons" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "breton" or "bretons"?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "breton" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bretons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #398,900 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "breton" and "bretons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "beton vs bretons". 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 #398,900 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.