Which to use
“ceinture” and “ceintures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,052
- “ceinture” frequency rank
- #17,364
- “ceintures” frequency rank
- 21416
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ceinture | ceintures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Dispositif qui entoure. | Pluriel de ceinture. |
Same sound, different letters: ceinture vs ceintures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. ceinture runs 8 letters (CVVCCVCV) against ceintures's 9 (CVVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - ceinture and ceintures
This is the hard kind. ceinture and ceintures are pronounced identically (\sɛ̃.tyʁ\) 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) - “ceinture” sits inside “ceintures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21416, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ceinture is recorded at frequency rank #4,052, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɛ̃.tyʁ\. ceintures is at rank #17,364, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɛ̃.tyʁ\.
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 21416, this pair ranks #363,269 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of ceinture vs ceintures
Shared letters: ceinrtu. Private to "ceinture": -. Private to "ceintures": s.
"ceinture" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV · "ceintures" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "ceinture" for "ceintures" ever safe?
Which is more common, "ceinture" or "ceintures"?
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 "ceinture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "ceintures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #363,269 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ceinture" and "ceintures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ceintures vs centrés". 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 #363,269 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.