cerisier vs cerisiers, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“cerisier” and “cerisiers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#31,877
“cerisier” frequency rank: #36,298
“cerisiers” frequency rank: 68175
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	cerisier	cerisiers
Definition	Arbre qui porte les cerises.	Pluriel de cerisier.

Same sound, different letters: cerisier vs cerisiers

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. cerisier runs 8 letters (CVCVCVVC) against cerisiers's 9 (CVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch

cerisier

9 ch

cerisiers

Homophone desk: cerisier vs cerisiers

This is the hard kind. cerisier and cerisiers are pronounced identically (\sə.ʁi.zje\) 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) - “cerisier” sits inside “cerisiers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68175, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cerisier is recorded at frequency rank #31,877, classified as anoun, pronounced \sə.ʁi.zje\. cerisiers is at rank #36,298, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sə.ʁi.zje\.

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 68175, this pair ranks #60,251 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of cerisier vs cerisiers

Shared letters: ceirs. Private to "cerisier": -. Private to "cerisiers": -.

"cerisier" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "cerisiers" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

cerisier ← ccerisier · ceirsier · ceriiser · ceriseir · cerisierr · cerisire · cerissier · cerrisier
cerisiers ← ccerisiers · ceirsiers · ceriisers · ceriseirs · cerisierrs · cerisierss · cerisiesr · cerisires

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cerisier" for "cerisiers" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\sə.ʁi.zje\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Which is more common, "cerisier" or "cerisiers"?

"cerisier" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,877 in our French list, against #36,298 for "cerisiers". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "cerisier" / "cerisiers". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

Full dictionary entry for "cerisier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "cerisiers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #60,251 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"cerisier" and "cerisiers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cerisier vs chemisier". 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 #60,251 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.