Which to use
“cigarette” and “cigarettes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,643
- “cigarette” frequency rank
- #7,541
- “cigarettes” frequency rank
- 13184
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cigarette | cigarettes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Petit cylindre de tabac finement haché entouré d'une feuille de papier fin, que l’on fume. | Pluriel de cigarette. |
Same sound, different letters: cigarette vs cigarettes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. cigarette runs 9 letters (CVCVCVCCV) against cigarettes's 10 (CVCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: cigarette vs cigarettes
This is the hard kind. cigarette and cigarettes are pronounced identically (\si.ɡa.ʁɛt\) 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) - “cigarette” sits inside “cigarettes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13184, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cigarette is recorded at frequency rank #5,643, classified as anoun, pronounced \si.ɡa.ʁɛt\. cigarettes is at rank #7,541, tagged as anoun, pronounced \si.ɡa.ʁɛt\.
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 13184, this pair ranks #402,081 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of cigarette vs cigarettes
Shared letters: acegirt. Private to "cigarette": -. Private to "cigarettes": s.
"cigarette" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCV · "cigarettes" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- cigarette ← ccigarette · cgiarette · ciagrette · cigaertte · cigarete · cigaretet · cigarrette · cigartete
- cigarettes ← ccigarettes · cgiarettes · ciagrettes · cigaerttes · cigaretes · cigaretets · cigarettess · cigarettse
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "cigarette" and "cigarettes" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "cigarette" or "cigarettes"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "cigarette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cigarettes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #402,081 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cigarette" and "cigarettes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Charette vs cigarette". 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 #402,081 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.