Which to use
“environnement” and “environnements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,137
- “environnement” frequency rank
- #17,703
- “environnements” frequency rank
- 18840
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | environnement | environnements |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ce qui est aux environs ; ce qui environne. | Pluriel de environnement. |
Same sound, different letters: environnement vs environnements
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters. environnement runs 13 letters (VCCVCVCCVCVCC) against environnements's 14 (VCCVCVCCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - environnement and environnements
This is the hard kind. environnement and environnements are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.mɑ̃\) 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) - “environnement” sits inside “environnements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18840, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
environnement is recorded at frequency rank #1,137, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.mɑ̃\. environnements is at rank #17,703, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔn.mɑ̃\.
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 18840, this pair ranks #376,317 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of environnement vs environnements
Shared letters: eimnortv. Private to "environnement": -. Private to "environnements": s.
"environnement" · 13 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVCVCC · "environnements" · 14 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- environnement ← enivronnement · ennvironnement · enviornnement · envirnonement · environement · environenment · environneemnt · environnemennt
- environnements ← enivronnements · ennvironnements · enviornnements · envirnonements · environements · environenments · environneemnts · environnemennts
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "environnement" and "environnements" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "environnement" or "environnements" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "environnement" / "environnements". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "environnement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "environnements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #376,317 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "environnement" and "environnements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "environment vs environnement". 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 #376,317 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.