Which to use
“empreint” and “empreints” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,796
- “empreint” frequency rank
- #46,140
- “empreints” frequency rank
- 73936
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | empreint | empreints |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | (Avec de) Caractérisé par ; profondément marqué par. | Masculin pluriel de empreint. |
Same sound, different letters: empreint vs empreints
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - empreint and empreints
This is the hard kind. empreint and empreints are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃\) 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) - “empreint” sits inside “empreints”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73936, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
empreint is recorded at frequency rank #27,796, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃\. empreints is at rank #46,140, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃\.
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 73936, this pair ranks #38,825 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of empreint vs empreints
Shared letters: eimnprt. Private to "empreint": -. Private to "empreints": s.
"empreint" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVVCC · "empreints" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "empreint" for "empreints" ever safe?
Frequency check: "empreint" vs "empreints" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "empreint" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "empreints" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #38,825 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "empreint" and "empreints" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "empreints vs emprunts". 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 #38,825 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.