Which to use
“donateur” and “donateurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,517
- “donateur” frequency rank
- #15,128
- “donateurs” frequency rank
- 38645
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | donateur | donateurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celui qui donne quelque chose, donneur. | Pluriel de donateur. |
Same sound, different letters: donateur vs donateurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. donateur runs 8 letters (CVCVCVVC) against donateurs's 9 (CVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - donateur and donateurs
This is the hard kind. donateur and donateurs are pronounced identically (\dɔ.na.tœʁ\) 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) - “donateur” sits inside “donateurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38645, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
donateur is recorded at frequency rank #23,517, classified as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.na.tœʁ\. donateurs is at rank #15,128, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.na.tœʁ\.
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 38645, this pair ranks #253,830 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of donateur vs donateurs
Shared letters: adenortu. Private to "donateur": -. Private to "donateurs": s.
"donateur" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "donateurs" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "donateur" and "donateurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "donateur" or "donateurs" show up more?
Useful next steps
"donateur" and "donateurs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "donateur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "donateurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #253,830 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "donateur" and "donateurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "détonateur vs donateur". 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 #253,830 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.