Which to use
“conteneur” and “conteneurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,150
- “conteneur” frequency rank
- #17,392
- “conteneurs” frequency rank
- 40542
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | conteneur | conteneurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Caisse métallique, parallélépipèdique, polyvalente (conçue pour le transport de marchandises par différents modes de transport), normalisée et munie, dans les angles, de pièces de préhension permettant l’arrimage et le transbordage. | Pluriel de conteneur. |
Same sound, different letters: conteneur vs conteneurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. conteneur runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVVC) against conteneurs's 10 (CVCCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - conteneur / conteneurs
This is the hard kind. conteneur and conteneurs are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃t.nœʁ\) 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) - “conteneur” sits inside “conteneurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40542, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
conteneur is recorded at frequency rank #23,150, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃t.nœʁ\. conteneurs is at rank #17,392, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃t.nœʁ\.
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 40542, this pair ranks #239,721 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of conteneur vs conteneurs
Shared letters: cenortu. Private to "conteneur": -. Private to "conteneurs": s.
"conteneur" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC · "conteneurs" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- conteneur ← cconteneur · cnoteneur · conetneur · connteneur · conteenur · conteneru · conteneurr · contenneur
- conteneurs ← cconteneurs · cnoteneurs · conetneurs · connteneurs · conteenurs · contenerus · conteneurrs · conteneurss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "conteneur" and "conteneurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "conteneur" vs "conteneurs" - which ranks higher?
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 "conteneur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "conteneurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #239,721 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "conteneur" and "conteneurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conteneurs vs conteurs". 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 #239,721 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.