Which to use
“destination” and “destinations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,918
- “destination” frequency rank
- #11,204
- “destinations” frequency rank
- 14122
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | destination | destinations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Emploi auquel une personne ou une chose doit être affectée ou usage qu’on en peut faire. | Pluriel de destination. |
Same sound, different letters: destination vs destinations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. destination runs 11 letters (CVCCVCVCVVC) against destinations's 12 (CVCCVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - destination and destinations
This is the hard kind. destination and destinations are pronounced identically (\dɛs.ti.na.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) - “destination” sits inside “destinations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14122, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
destination is recorded at frequency rank #2,918, classified as anoun, pronounced \dɛs.ti.na.sjɔ̃\. destinations is at rank #11,204, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dɛs.ti.na.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 14122, this pair ranks #398,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of destination vs destinations
Shared letters: adeinost. Private to "destination": -. Private to "destinations": -.
"destination" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVC · "destinations" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- destination ← ddestination · desitnation · desstination · destiantion · destinaiton · destinatino · destinationn · destinatoin
- destinations ← ddestinations · desitnations · desstinations · destiantions · destinaitons · destinatinos · destinationns · destinationss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "destination" and "destinations" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "destination" or "destinations" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "destination" / "destinations". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "destination" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "destinations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #398,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "destination" and "destinations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "désignations vs destinations". 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 #398,088 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.