Which to use
“entrepôt” and “entrepôts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,700
- “entrepôt” frequency rank
- #16,355
- “entrepôts” frequency rank
- 27055
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | entrepôt | entrepôts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Lieu où l’on met des marchandises en dépôt. | Pluriel de entrepôt. |
Same sound, different letters: entrepôt vs entrepôts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. entrepôt runs 8 letters (VCCCVCVC) against entrepôts's 9 (VCCCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: entrepôt vs entrepôts
This is the hard kind. entrepôt and entrepôts are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.tʁə.po\) 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) - “entrepôt” sits inside “entrepôts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27055, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
entrepôt is recorded at frequency rank #10,700, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.tʁə.po\. entrepôts is at rank #16,355, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃t.ʁə.po\.
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 27055, this pair ranks #331,333 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of entrepôt vs entrepôts
Shared letters: enprtô. Private to "entrepôt": -. Private to "entrepôts": s.
"entrepôt" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVCVC · "entrepôts" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVCC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "entrepôt" and "entrepôts" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "entrepôt" vs "entrepôts" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"entrepôt" and "entrepôts" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "entrepôt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "entrepôts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #331,333 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "entrepôt" and "entrepôts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "entreposés vs entrepôts". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #331,333 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.