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“faiseur” and “faiseurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#32,405
“faiseur” frequency rank
#45,038
“faiseurs” frequency rank
77443
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature faiseur faiseurs
Definition Celui qui fait certains ouvrages, qui fabrique certains objets, en parlant des choses de mode. Pluriel de faiseur.

Same sound, different letters: faiseur vs faiseurs

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

7 ch
faiseur
8 ch
faiseurs

Ear matches; page differs - faiseur and faiseurs

This is the hard kind. faiseur and faiseurs are pronounced identically (\fə.zœʁ\) 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) - “faiseur” sits inside “faiseurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77443, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

faiseur is recorded at frequency rank #32,405, classified as anoun, pronounced \fə.zœʁ\. faiseurs is at rank #45,038, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fə.zœʁ\.

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 77443, this pair ranks #28,347 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of faiseur vs faiseurs

Shared letters: aefirsu. Private to "faiseur": -. Private to "faiseurs": -.

"faiseur" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC  ·  "faiseurs" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • faiseurafiseur · faiesur · faiseru · faiseurr · faisseur · faisuer · fasieur · ffaiseur
  • faiseursafiseurs · faiesurs · faiserus · faiseurrs · faiseurss · faiseusr · faisseurs · faisuers

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "faiseur" and "faiseurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fə.zœʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "faiseur" vs "faiseurs" - which ranks higher?
"faiseur" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,405 in our French list, against #45,038 for "faiseurs". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "faiseur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "faiseurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #28,347 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "faiseur" and "faiseurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "faiseurs vs fauteurs". 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 #28,347 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list