Which to use
“brochette” and “brochettes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,649
- “brochette” frequency rank
- #35,835
- “brochettes” frequency rank
- 62484
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | brochette | brochettes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Petite broche de fer, de bois, et quelquefois d’argent, dont on se sert, soit pour assujettir la viande à la broche, soit pour faire rôtir ou griller de petites pièces de gibier, des rognons de mouton et d’autres viandes. | Pluriel de brochette. |
Same sound, different letters: brochette vs brochettes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. brochette runs 9 letters (CCVCCVCCV) against brochettes's 10 (CCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: brochette vs brochettes
This is the hard kind. brochette and brochettes are pronounced identically (\bʁɔ.ʃɛt\) 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) - “brochette” sits inside “brochettes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62484, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
brochette is recorded at frequency rank #26,649, classified as anoun, pronounced \bʁɔ.ʃɛt\. brochettes is at rank #35,835, tagged as anoun, pronounced \bʁɔ.ʃɛt\.
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 62484, this pair ranks #86,873 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of brochette vs brochettes
Shared letters: bcehort. Private to "brochette": -. Private to "brochettes": s.
"brochette" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVCCV · "brochettes" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- brochette ← bbrochette · borchette · brcohette · brocchette · brocehtte · brochete · brochetet · brochhette
- brochettes ← bbrochettes · borchettes · brcohettes · brocchettes · brocehttes · brochetes · brochetets · brochettess
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "brochette" and "brochettes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "brochette" or "brochettes" show up more?
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 "brochette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "brochettes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #86,873 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "brochette" and "brochettes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "brochet vs brochette". 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 #86,873 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.