Which to use
“excursion” and “excursions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,617
- “excursion” frequency rank
- #19,830
- “excursions” frequency rank
- 36447
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excursion | excursions |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Course au dehors, promenade de recherche, de découverte. | Pluriel de excursion. |
Same sound, different letters: excursion vs excursions
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Homophone desk: excursion vs excursions
This is the hard kind. excursion and excursions are pronounced identically (\ɛk.skyʁ.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “excursion” sits inside “excursions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36447, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excursion is recorded at frequency rank #16,617, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛk.skyʁ.sjɔ̃\. excursions is at rank #19,830, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛk.skyʁ.sjɔ̃\.
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 36447, this pair ranks #269,555 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excursion vs excursions
Shared letters: ceinorsux. Private to "excursion": -. Private to "excursions": -.
"excursion" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "excursions" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excursion ← ecxursion · exccursion · excrusion · excurison · excurrsion · excursino · excursionn · excursoin
- excursions ← ecxursions · exccursions · excrusions · excurisons · excurrsions · excursinos · excursionns · excursionss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "excursion" and "excursions" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "excursion" vs "excursions" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "excursion" / "excursions". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "excursion" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excursions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #269,555 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excursion" and "excursions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exclusions vs excursions". 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 #269,555 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.