Which to use
“couturier” and “couturiers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,104
- “couturier” frequency rank
- #49,005
- “couturiers” frequency rank
- 69109
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | couturier | couturiers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celui qui invente des costumes, prêt-à-porter ou sur mesure. | Pluriel de couturier. |
Same sound, different letters: couturier vs couturiers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. couturier runs 9 letters (CVVCVCVVC) against couturiers's 10 (CVVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: couturier vs couturiers
This is the hard kind. couturier and couturiers are pronounced identically (\ku.ty.ʁje\) 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) - “couturier” sits inside “couturiers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69109, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
couturier is recorded at frequency rank #20,104, classified as anoun, pronounced \ku.ty.ʁje\. couturiers is at rank #49,005, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ku.ty.ʁje\.
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 69109, this pair ranks #56,439 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of couturier vs couturiers
Shared letters: ceiortu. Private to "couturier": -. Private to "couturiers": s.
"couturier" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCVVC · "couturiers" · 10 letters · shape CVVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- couturier ← ccouturier · cotuurier · coutruier · coutturier · coutuirer · coutureir · couturierr · couturire
- couturiers ← ccouturiers · cotuuriers · coutruiers · coutturiers · coutuirers · coutureirs · couturierrs · couturierss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "couturier" and "couturiers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "couturier" or "couturiers" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "couturier" / "couturiers". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "couturier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "couturiers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #56,439 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "couturier" and "couturiers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coutumiers vs couturiers". 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 #56,439 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.