Which to use
“cylindre” and “cylindres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,441
- “cylindre” frequency rank
- #10,481
- “cylindres” frequency rank
- 24922
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cylindre | cylindres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Surface réglée dont les génératrices sont des droites parallèles. | Pluriel de cylindre. |
Same sound, different letters: cylindre vs cylindres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. cylindre runs 8 letters (CVCVCCCV) against cylindres's 9 (CVCVCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: cylindre vs cylindres
This is the hard kind. cylindre and cylindres are pronounced identically (\si.lɛ̃dʁ\) 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) - “cylindre” sits inside “cylindres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24922, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cylindre is recorded at frequency rank #14,441, classified as anoun, pronounced \si.lɛ̃dʁ\. cylindres is at rank #10,481, tagged as anoun, pronounced \si.lɛ̃dʁ\.
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 24922, this pair ranks #343,807 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of cylindre vs cylindres
Shared letters: cdeilnry. Private to "cylindre": -. Private to "cylindres": s.
"cylindre" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCCV · "cylindres" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "cylindre" and "cylindres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "cylindre" vs "cylindres" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"cylindre" and "cylindres" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "cylindre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cylindres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #343,807 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cylindre" and "cylindres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "calandre vs cylindre". 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 #343,807 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.