Which to use
“facilité” and “facilités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,038
- “facilité” frequency rank
- #18,199
- “facilités” frequency rank
- 23237
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | facilité | facilités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qualité de ce qui est fait ou employé sans peine. | Pluriel de facilité. |
Same sound, different letters: facilité vs facilités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. facilité runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against facilités's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: facilité vs facilités
This is the hard kind. facilité and facilités are pronounced identically (\fa.si.li.te\) 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) - “facilité” sits inside “facilités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23237, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
facilité is recorded at frequency rank #5,038, classified as anoun, pronounced \fa.si.li.te\. facilités is at rank #18,199, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fa.si.li.te\.
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 23237, this pair ranks #353,647 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of facilité vs facilités
Shared letters: acfilté. Private to "facilité": -. Private to "facilités": s.
"facilité" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "facilités" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "facilité" and "facilités" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "facilité" vs "facilités" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "facilité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "facilités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #353,647 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "facilité" and "facilités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "facilitera vs facilités". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #353,647 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.