Which to use
“croyant” and “croyants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,294
- “croyant” frequency rank
- #10,852
- “croyants” frequency rank
- 18146
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | croyant | croyants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui croit ce que sa religion enseigne. | Masculin pluriel de croyant. |
Same sound, different letters: croyant vs croyants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. croyant runs 7 letters (CCVVVCC) against croyants's 8 (CCVVVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - croyant and croyants
This is the hard kind. croyant and croyants are pronounced identically (\kʁwa.jɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “croyant” sits inside “croyants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18146, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
croyant is recorded at frequency rank #7,294, classified as anadj, pronounced \kʁwa.jɑ̃\. croyants is at rank #10,852, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kʁwa.jɑ̃\.
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 18146, this pair ranks #379,768 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of croyant vs croyants
Shared letters: acnorty. Private to "croyant": -. Private to "croyants": s.
"croyant" · 7 letters · shape CCVVVCC · "croyants" · 8 letters · shape CCVVVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "croyant" and "croyants" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "croyant" or "croyants" show up more?
Useful next steps
"croyant" and "croyants" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "croyant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "croyants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #379,768 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "croyant" and "croyants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "croyante vs croyants". 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 #379,768 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.