Which to use
“émouvant” and “émouvants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,183
- “émouvant” frequency rank
- #48,282
- “émouvants” frequency rank
- 62465
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | émouvant | émouvants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui émeut, qui fait naître de vives émotions. | Masculin pluriel de émouvant. |
Same sound, different letters: émouvant vs émouvants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. émouvant runs 8 letters (VCVVCVCC) against émouvants's 9 (VCVVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - émouvant / émouvants
This is the hard kind. émouvant and émouvants are pronounced identically (\e.mu.vɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “émouvant” sits inside “émouvants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62465, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
émouvant is recorded at frequency rank #14,183, classified as anadj, pronounced \e.mu.vɑ̃\. émouvants is at rank #48,282, tagged as anadj, pronounced \e.mu.vɑ̃\.
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 62465, this pair ranks #86,971 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of émouvant vs émouvants
Shared letters: amnotuvé. Private to "émouvant": -. Private to "émouvants": s.
"émouvant" · 8 letters · shape VCVVCVCC · "émouvants" · 9 letters · shape VCVVCVCCC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "émouvant" and "émouvants" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "émouvant" vs "émouvants" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "émouvant" / "émouvants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "émouvant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "émouvants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #86,971 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "émouvant" and "émouvants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "émouvantes vs émouvants". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #86,971 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.