Which to use
“donation” and “donations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,358
- “donation” frequency rank
- #20,117
- “donations” frequency rank
- 32475
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | donation | donations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Don qui se fait par acte public. | Pluriel de donation. |
Same sound, different letters: donation vs donations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. donation runs 8 letters (CVCVCVVC) against donations's 9 (CVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: donation vs donations
This is the hard kind. donation and donations are pronounced identically (\dɔ.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) - “donation” sits inside “donations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32475, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
donation is recorded at frequency rank #12,358, classified as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.na.sjɔ̃\. donations is at rank #20,117, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.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 32475, this pair ranks #297,030 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of donation vs donations
Shared letters: adinot. Private to "donation": -. Private to "donations": s.
"donation" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "donations" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "donation" for "donations" ever safe?
Which is more common, "donation" or "donations"?
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 "donation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "donations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #297,030 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "donation" and "donations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "délation vs donation". 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 #297,030 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.