Which to use
“doublage” and “doublages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,717
- “doublage” frequency rank
- #48,454
- “doublages” frequency rank
- 67171
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | doublage | doublages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Revêtement de feuilles de cuivre, ou de planches, qu’on applique aux navires destinés à des voyages de long cours. | Pluriel de doublage. |
Same sound, different letters: doublage vs doublages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. doublage runs 8 letters (CVVCCVCV) against doublages's 9 (CVVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - doublage and doublages
This is the hard kind. doublage and doublages are pronounced identically (\du.blaʒ\) 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) - “doublage” sits inside “doublages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67171, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
doublage is recorded at frequency rank #18,717, classified as anoun, pronounced \du.blaʒ\. doublages is at rank #48,454, tagged as anoun, pronounced \du.blaʒ\.
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 67171, this pair ranks #64,579 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of doublage vs doublages
Shared letters: abdeglou. Private to "doublage": -. Private to "doublages": s.
"doublage" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV · "doublages" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "doublage" and "doublages" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "doublage" or "doublages"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "doublage" / "doublages". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "doublage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "doublages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #64,579 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "doublage" and "doublages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "doublages vs doublées". 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 #64,579 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.