Which to use
“description” and “descriptions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,909
- “description” frequency rank
- #11,030
- “descriptions” frequency rank
- 12939
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | description | descriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de décrire, développement par lequel on décrit, on dépeint ; résultat de cette action. | Pluriel de description. |
Same sound, different letters: description vs descriptions
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters.
Homophone desk: description vs descriptions
This is the hard kind. description and descriptions are pronounced identically (\dɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “description” sits inside “descriptions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12939, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
description is recorded at frequency rank #1,909, classified as anoun, pronounced \dɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\. descriptions is at rank #11,030, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\.
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 12939, this pair ranks #403,114 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of description vs descriptions
Shared letters: cdeinoprst. Private to "description": -. Private to "descriptions": -.
"description" · 11 letters · shape CVCCCVCCVVC · "descriptions" · 12 letters · shape CVCCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- description ← ddescription · decsription · desccription · descirption · descripiton · descripption · descriptino · descriptionn
- descriptions ← ddescriptions · decsriptions · desccriptions · descirptions · descripitons · descripptions · descriptinos · descriptionns
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "description" and "descriptions" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "description" or "descriptions" show up more?
After this comparison
"description" and "descriptions" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "description" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "descriptions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #403,114 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "description" and "descriptions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "description vs descriptive". 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 #403,114 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.