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“emoji” and “emojis” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#41,765
“emoji” frequency rank
#47,315
“emojis” frequency rank
89080
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature emoji emojis
Definition Émoticône ou pictogramme ayant un point de code unique, utilisé dans les messages électroniques, par exemple 🚃 (U+1F683 dans Unicode). Pluriel de emoji.

Same sound, different letters: emoji vs emojis

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. emoji runs 5 letters (VCVCV) against emojis's 6 (VCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
emoji
6 ch
emojis

Homophone desk: emoji vs emojis

This is the hard kind. emoji and emojis are pronounced identically (\e.mo.ʒi\) 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) - “emoji” sits inside “emojis”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 89080, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

emoji is recorded at frequency rank #41,765, classified as anoun, pronounced \e.mo.ʒi\. emojis is at rank #47,315, tagged as anoun, pronounced \e.mo.ʒi\.

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 89080, this pair ranks #6,198 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of emoji vs emojis

Shared letters: eijmo. Private to "emoji": -. Private to "emojis": s.

"emoji" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "emojis" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • emoji ← emjoi · emmoji · emoij · emojji · eomji · meoji
  • emojis ← emjois · emmojis · emoijs · emojiss · emojjis · emojsi · eomjis · meojis

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "emoji" and "emojis" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\e.mo.ʒi\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "emoji" or "emojis"?
"emoji" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,765 in our French list, against #47,315 for "emojis". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "emoji" / "emojis". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "emoji" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "emojis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #6,198 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "emoji" and "emojis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Éloi vs emoji". 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 #6,198 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