Which to use
“dépôt” and “dépôts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,136
- “dépôt” frequency rank
- #6,499
- “dépôts” frequency rank
- 9635
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | dépôt | dépôts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de déposer, de placer une chose en quelque endroit, ou de remettre, de confier une chose à quelqu’un. | Pluriel de dépôt. |
Same sound, different letters: dépôt vs dépôts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - dépôt / dépôts
This is the hard kind. dépôt and dépôts are pronounced identically (\de.po\) 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) - “dépôt” sits inside “dépôts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9635, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
dépôt is recorded at frequency rank #3,136, classified as anoun, pronounced \de.po\. dépôts is at rank #6,499, tagged as anoun, pronounced \de.po\.
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 9635, this pair ranks #415,963 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of dépôt vs dépôts
Shared letters: dptéô. Private to "dépôt": -. Private to "dépôts": s.
"dépôt" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "dépôts" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "dépôt" and "dépôts" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "dépôt" vs "dépôts" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "dépôt" / "dépôts". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "dépôt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "dépôts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #415,963 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "dépôt" and "dépôts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Delors vs dépôts". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #415,963 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.