Which to use
“druide” and “druides” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #33,224
- “druide” frequency rank
- #37,766
- “druides” frequency rank
- 70990
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | druide | druides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Membre de la classe sacerdotale chez les Celtes de Gaule, de Bretagne et d’Irlande. | Pluriel de druide. |
Same sound, different letters: druide vs druides
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: druide vs druides
This is the hard kind. druide and druides are pronounced identically (\dʁɥid\) 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) - “druide” sits inside “druides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70990, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
druide is recorded at frequency rank #33,224, classified as anoun, pronounced \dʁɥid\. druides is at rank #37,766, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dʁɥid\.
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 70990, this pair ranks #49,211 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of druide vs druides
Shared letters: deiru. Private to "druide": -. Private to "druides": s.
"druide" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCV · "druides" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "druide" and "druides" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "druide" or "druides" show up more?
What to do next
"druide" and "druides" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "druide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "druides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #49,211 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "druide" and "druides" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "draine vs druide". 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 #49,211 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.