Which to use
“courroie” and “courroies” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,901
- “courroie” frequency rank
- #46,682
- “courroies” frequency rank
- 75583
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | courroie | courroies |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pièce de cuir ou d’étoffe, coupée en long, étroite, qui sert à lier, à attacher quelque chose. | Pluriel de courroie. |
Same sound, different letters: courroie vs courroies
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. courroie runs 8 letters (CVVCCVVV) against courroies's 9 (CVVCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - courroie and courroies
This is the hard kind. courroie and courroies are pronounced identically (\ku.ʁwa\) 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) - “courroie” sits inside “courroies”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75583, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
courroie is recorded at frequency rank #28,901, classified as anoun, pronounced \ku.ʁwa\. courroies is at rank #46,682, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ku.ʁwa\.
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 75583, this pair ranks #33,636 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of courroie vs courroies
Shared letters: ceioru. Private to "courroie": -. Private to "courroies": s.
"courroie" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVV · "courroies" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "courroie" and "courroies" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "courroie" vs "courroies" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "courroie" / "courroies". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "courroie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "courroies" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #33,636 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "courroie" and "courroies" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "courrait vs courroie". 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 #33,636 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.