Which to use
“donneur” and “donneurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,247
- “donneur” frequency rank
- #17,117
- “donneurs” frequency rank
- 31364
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | donneur | donneurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celui qui donne. | Pluriel de donneur. |
Same sound, different letters: donneur vs donneurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. donneur runs 7 letters (CVCCVVC) against donneurs's 8 (CVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: donneur vs donneurs
This is the hard kind. donneur and donneurs are pronounced identically (\dɔ.nœʁ\) 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) - “donneur” sits inside “donneurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31364, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
donneur is recorded at frequency rank #14,247, classified as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.nœʁ\. donneurs is at rank #17,117, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.nœʁ\.
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 31364, this pair ranks #304,257 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of donneur vs donneurs
Shared letters: denoru. Private to "donneur": -. Private to "donneurs": s.
"donneur" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC · "donneurs" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "donneur" and "donneurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "donneur" or "donneurs" show up more?
Useful next steps
"donneur" and "donneurs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "donneur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "donneurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #304,257 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "donneur" and "donneurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "donneras vs donneurs". 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 #304,257 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.