Which to use
“dollar” and “dollars” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,496
- “dollar” frequency rank
- #1,178
- “dollars” frequency rank
- 7674
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | dollar | dollars |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Nom générique donné à l’unité monétaire de nombreux pays, généralement divisée en 100 cents. Son symbole est $ (Unicode U+0024). | Pluriel de dollar. |
Same sound, different letters: dollar vs dollars
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. dollar runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against dollars's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: dollar vs dollars
This is the hard kind. dollar and dollars are pronounced identically (\dɔ.laʁ\) 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) - “dollar” sits inside “dollars”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7674, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
dollar is recorded at frequency rank #6,496, classified as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.laʁ\. dollars is at rank #1,178, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.laʁ\.
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 7674, this pair ranks #422,478 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of dollar vs dollars
Shared letters: adlor. Private to "dollar": -. Private to "dollars": s.
"dollar" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "dollars" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "dollar" and "dollars" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "dollar" vs "dollars" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "dollar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "dollars" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #422,478 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "dollar" and "dollars" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "doll vs dollar". 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 #422,478 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.