commémoration vs commémorations

Which to use

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

#14,431
“commémoration” frequency rank: #26,674
“commémorations” frequency rank: 41105
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	commémoration	commémorations
Definition	Cérémonie du souvenir établie par l’église.	Pluriel de commémoration.

Same sound, different letters: commémoration vs commémorations

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters. commémoration runs 13 letters (CVCCVCVCVCVVC) against commémorations's 14 (CVCCVCVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

13 ch

commémoration

14 ch

commémorations

Same sound, different spelling - commémoration / commémorations

This is the hard kind. commémoration and commémorations are pronounced identically (\kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “commémoration” sits inside “commémorations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41105, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commémoration is recorded at frequency rank #14,431, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. commémorations is at rank #26,674, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\.

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 41105, this pair ranks #235,537 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commémoration vs commémorations

Shared letters: acimnorté. Private to "commémoration": -. Private to "commémorations": s.

"commémoration" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVVC · "commémorations" · 14 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVVCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "commémoration" and "commémorations" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ.me.mɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

In ordinary French text, does "commémoration" or "commémorations" show up more?

"commémoration" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,431 in our French list, against #26,674 for "commémorations". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "commémoration" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "commémorations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #235,537 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"commémoration" and "commémorations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commémoratif vs commémoration". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #235,537 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.