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“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.

9 ch
employeur
10 ch
employeurs

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɑ̃.plwa.jœʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "employeur" vs "employeurs" - which ranks higher?
"employeur" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,667 in our French list, against #7,435 for "employeurs". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list