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“enregistreur” and “enregistreurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#28,937
“enregistreur” frequency rank
#42,859
“enregistreurs” frequency rank
71796
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature enregistreur enregistreurs
Definition Qui sert à enregistrer, en parlant d’un appareil. Masculin pluriel de enregistreur.

Same sound, different letters: enregistreur vs enregistreurs

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters. enregistreur runs 12 letters (VCCVCVCCCVVC) against enregistreurs's 13 (VCCVCVCCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
enregistreur
13 ch
enregistreurs

Same sound, different spelling - enregistreur / enregistreurs

This is the hard kind. enregistreur and enregistreurs are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.ʁə.ʒis.tʁœʁ\) 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) - “enregistreur” sits inside “enregistreurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71796, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

enregistreur is recorded at frequency rank #28,937, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.ʁə.ʒis.tʁœʁ\. enregistreurs is at rank #42,859, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.ʁə.ʒis.tʁœʁ\.

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 71796, this pair ranks #46,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of enregistreur vs enregistreurs

Shared letters: eginrstu. Private to "enregistreur": -. Private to "enregistreurs": -.

"enregistreur" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVVC  ·  "enregistreurs" · 13 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • enregistreur ← energistreur · ennregistreur · enreggistreur · enregisrteur · enregisstreur · enregisterur · enregistreru · enregistreurr
  • enregistreurs ← energistreurs · ennregistreurs · enreggistreurs · enregisrteurs · enregisstreurs · enregisterurs · enregistrerus · enregistreurrs

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "enregistreur" and "enregistreurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɑ̃.ʁə.ʒis.tʁœʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "enregistreur" or "enregistreurs"?
"enregistreur" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,937 in our French list, against #42,859 for "enregistreurs". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "enregistreur" / "enregistreurs". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "enregistreur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "enregistreurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #46,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "enregistreur" and "enregistreurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "enregistreur vs enregistrez". 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 #46,268 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