Which to use
“corporation” and “corporations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,683
- “corporation” frequency rank
- #19,491
- “corporations” frequency rank
- 28174
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | corporation | corporations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ensemble de personnes, considérées comme formant un tout au sens où elles partagent une caractéristique commune, notamment un métier. | Pluriel de corporation. |
Same sound, different letters: corporation vs corporations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. corporation runs 11 letters (CVCCVCVCVVC) against corporations's 12 (CVCCVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - corporation and corporations
This is the hard kind. corporation and corporations are pronounced identically (\kɔʁ.pɔ.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) - “corporation” sits inside “corporations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28174, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
corporation is recorded at frequency rank #8,683, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. corporations is at rank #19,491, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔʁ.pɔ.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 28174, this pair ranks #324,452 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of corporation vs corporations
Shared letters: acinoprt. Private to "corporation": -. Private to "corporations": s.
"corporation" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVC · "corporations" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- corporation ← ccorporation · coproration · coropration · corpoartion · corporaiton · corporatino · corporationn · corporatoin
- corporations ← ccorporations · coprorations · coroprations · corpoartions · corporaitons · corporatinos · corporationns · corporationss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "corporation" and "corporations" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "corporation" or "corporations" show up more?
After this comparison
"corporation" and "corporations" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "corporation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "corporations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #324,452 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "corporation" and "corporations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "colorations vs corporations". 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 #324,452 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.