Which to use
“confidence” and “confidences” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,809
- “confidence” frequency rank
- #17,910
- “confidences” frequency rank
- 41719
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | confidence | confidences |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Communication d’un secret. | Pluriel de confidence. |
Same sound, different letters: confidence vs confidences
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. confidence runs 10 letters (CVCCVCVCCV) against confidences's 11 (CVCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - confidence and confidences
This is the hard kind. confidence and confidences are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃s\) 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) - “confidence” sits inside “confidences”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41719, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
confidence is recorded at frequency rank #23,809, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃s\. confidences is at rank #17,910, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃s\.
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 41719, this pair ranks #231,018 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of confidence vs confidences
Shared letters: cdefino. Private to "confidence": -. Private to "confidences": s.
"confidence" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCV · "confidences" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- confidence ← cconfidence · cnofidence · cofnidence · confdience · conffidence · confiddence · confidecne · confidencce
- confidences ← cconfidences · cnofidences · cofnidences · confdiences · conffidences · confiddences · confidecnes · confidencces
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "confidence" and "confidences" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "confidence" vs "confidences" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"confidence" and "confidences" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "confidence" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "confidences" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #231,018 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "confidence" and "confidences" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confidence vs confidente". 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 #231,018 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.