Which to use
“cadran” and “cadrans” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,891
- “cadran” frequency rank
- #42,210
- “cadrans” frequency rank
- 60101
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cadran | cadrans |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Surface sur laquelle sont tracés les chiffres des heures et où la marche du temps est indiquée soit par l’ombre d’un style, soit par une aiguille que meuvent des ressorts intérieurs. | Pluriel de cadran. |
Same sound, different letters: cadran vs cadrans
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. cadran runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against cadrans's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - cadran / cadrans
This is the hard kind. cadran and cadrans are pronounced identically (\ka.dʁɑ̃\) 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) - “cadran” sits inside “cadrans”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60101, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cadran is recorded at frequency rank #17,891, classified as anoun, pronounced \ka.dʁɑ̃\. cadrans is at rank #42,210, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ka.dʁɑ̃\.
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 60101, this pair ranks #99,448 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of cadran vs cadrans
Shared letters: acdnr. Private to "cadran": -. Private to "cadrans": s.
"cadran" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "cadrans" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "cadran" and "cadrans" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "cadran" vs "cadrans" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "cadran" / "cadrans". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "cadran" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cadrans" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #99,448 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cadran" and "cadrans" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cadrans vs crans". 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 #99,448 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.