Which to use
“expérience” and “expériences” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #722
- “expérience” frequency rank
- #2,674
- “expériences” frequency rank
- 3396
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | expérience | expériences |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Connaissance des choses, acquise par l’usage du monde et de la vie. | Pluriel de expérience. |
Same sound, different letters: expérience vs expériences
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - expérience and expériences
This is the hard kind. expérience and expériences are pronounced identically (\ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s\) 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) - “expérience” sits inside “expériences”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3396, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
expérience is recorded at frequency rank #722, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s\. expériences is at rank #2,674, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛk.spe.ʁjɑ̃s\.
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 3396, this pair ranks #434,136 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of expérience vs expériences
Shared letters: ceinprxé. Private to "expérience": -. Private to "expériences": s.
"expérience" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVVCCV · "expériences" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "expérience" and "expériences" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "expérience" or "expériences" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "expérience" / "expériences". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "expérience" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "expériences" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #434,136 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "expérience" and "expériences" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "expériences vs expérimentés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #434,136 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.