Which to use
“escalier” and “escaliers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,575
- “escalier” frequency rank
- #7,315
- “escaliers” frequency rank
- 11890
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | escalier | escaliers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ensemble de marches qui, dans un bâtiment, servent pour monter ou descendre. | Pluriel de escalier. |
Same sound, different letters: escalier vs escaliers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. escalier runs 8 letters (VCCVCVVC) against escaliers's 9 (VCCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: escalier vs escaliers
This is the hard kind. escalier and escaliers are pronounced identically (\ɛs.ka.lje\) 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) - “escalier” sits inside “escaliers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11890, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
escalier is recorded at frequency rank #4,575, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛs.ka.lje\. escaliers is at rank #7,315, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛs.ka.lje\.
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 11890, this pair ranks #407,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of escalier vs escaliers
Shared letters: aceilrs. Private to "escalier": -. Private to "escaliers": -.
"escalier" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC · "escaliers" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "escalier" and "escaliers" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "escalier" or "escaliers"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "escalier" / "escaliers". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "escalier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "escaliers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #407,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "escalier" and "escaliers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "écolier vs escalier". 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 #407,419 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.