Which to use
“employeur” and “employeurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,667
- “employeur” frequency rank
- #7,435
- “employeurs” frequency rank
- 12102
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | employeur | employeurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne, entreprise ou autre organisme qui emploie des salariés. | Pluriel de employeur. |
Same sound, different letters: employeur vs employeurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. employeur runs 9 letters (VCCCVVVVC) against employeurs's 10 (VCCCVVVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - employeur and employeurs
This is the hard kind. employeur and employeurs are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\) 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) - “employeur” sits inside “employeurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12102, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
employeur is recorded at frequency rank #4,667, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\. employeurs is at rank #7,435, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃p.lwa.jœʁ\.
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 12102, this pair ranks #406,572 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of employeur vs employeurs
Shared letters: elmopruy. Private to "employeur": -. Private to "employeurs": s.
"employeur" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVVVVC · "employeurs" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVVVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- employeur ← emlpoyeur · emmployeur · emplloyeur · emploeyur · employeru · employeurr · employuer · employyeur
- employeurs ← emlpoyeurs · emmployeurs · emplloyeurs · emploeyurs · employerus · employeurrs · employeurss · employeusr
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "employeur" and "employeurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "employeur" vs "employeurs" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"employeur" and "employeurs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "employeur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "employeurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #406,572 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "employeur" and "employeurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "employeur vs employez". 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 #406,572 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.