Which to use
“empereur” and “empereurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,364
- “empereur” frequency rank
- #17,945
- “empereurs” frequency rank
- 20309
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | empereur | empereurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Souverain d’un empire. | Pluriel de empereur. |
Same sound, different letters: empereur vs empereurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. empereur runs 8 letters (VCCVCVVC) against empereurs's 9 (VCCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - empereur and empereurs
This is the hard kind. empereur and empereurs are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.pʁœʁ\) 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) - “empereur” sits inside “empereurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20309, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
empereur is recorded at frequency rank #2,364, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁœʁ\. empereurs is at rank #17,945, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁœʁ\.
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 20309, this pair ranks #368,918 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of empereur vs empereurs
Shared letters: empru. Private to "empereur": -. Private to "empereurs": s.
"empereur" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC · "empereurs" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "empereur" and "empereurs" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "empereur" or "empereurs" show up more?
After this comparison
"empereur" and "empereurs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "empereur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "empereurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #368,918 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "empereur" and "empereurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "empereur vs empirer". 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 #368,918 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.