Which to use
“bruyant” and “bruyants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,561
- “bruyant” frequency rank
- #25,575
- “bruyants” frequency rank
- 42136
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bruyant | bruyants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui fait du bruit ou qui est accompagné de bruit. | Masculin pluriel de bruyant. |
Same sound, different letters: bruyant vs bruyants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: bruyant vs bruyants
This is the hard kind. bruyant and bruyants are pronounced identically (\bʁɥi.jɑ̃\) 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) - “bruyant” sits inside “bruyants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42136, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bruyant is recorded at frequency rank #16,561, classified as anadj, pronounced \bʁɥi.jɑ̃\. bruyants is at rank #25,575, tagged as anadj, pronounced \bʁɥi.jɑ̃\.
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 42136, this pair ranks #227,951 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of bruyant vs bruyants
Shared letters: abnrtuy. Private to "bruyant": -. Private to "bruyants": s.
"bruyant" · 7 letters · shape CCVVVCC · "bruyants" · 8 letters · shape CCVVVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "bruyant" for "bruyants" ever safe?
Frequency check: "bruyant" vs "bruyants" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "bruyant" / "bruyants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "bruyant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bruyants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #227,951 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bruyant" and "bruyants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "brûlantes vs bruyants". 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 #227,951 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.