druidevsdruidesConfusable pair

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.

6 ch
druide
7 ch
druides

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

  • druideddruide · driude · drruide · drudie · druidde · druied · duride · rduide
  • druidesddruides · driudes · drruides · drudies · druiddes · druidess · druidse · druieds

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "druide" and "druides" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\dʁɥid\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "druide" or "druides" show up more?
"druide" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,224 in our French list, against #37,766 for "druides". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list