Which to use
“escadron” and “escadrons” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,127
- “escadron” frequency rank
- #24,210
- “escadrons” frequency rank
- 41337
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | escadron | escadrons |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troupe, généralement de cavalerie, composée d’une ou de plusieurs compagnies, et, en général, de quatre au plus. | Pluriel de escadron. |
Same sound, different letters: escadron vs escadrons
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. escadron runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVC) against escadrons's 9 (VCCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: escadron vs escadrons
This is the hard kind. escadron and escadrons are pronounced identically (\ɛs.ka.dʁɔ̃\) 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) - “escadron” sits inside “escadrons”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41337, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
escadron is recorded at frequency rank #17,127, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛs.ka.dʁɔ̃\. escadrons is at rank #24,210, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛs.kad.ʁɔ̃\.
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 41337, this pair ranks #233,844 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of escadron vs escadrons
Shared letters: acdenors. Private to "escadron": -. Private to "escadrons": -.
"escadron" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC · "escadrons" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "escadron" and "escadrons" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "escadron" or "escadrons"?
After this comparison
"escadron" and "escadrons" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "escadron" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "escadrons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #233,844 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "escadron" and "escadrons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "escadre vs escadron". 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 #233,844 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.