feuilletonvsfeuilletonsTell them apart

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

#13,791
“feuilleton” frequency rank
#39,800
“feuilletons” frequency rank
53591
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feuilleton feuilletons
Definition Partie de certains journaux, ordinairement au bas des pages, et contenant des articles de littérature, de critique, de beaux-arts, ou des romans. Pluriel de feuilleton.

Same sound, different letters: feuilleton vs feuilletons

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. feuilleton runs 10 letters (CVVVCCVCVC) against feuilletons's 11 (CVVVCCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
feuilleton
11 ch
feuilletons

Ear matches; page differs - feuilleton and feuilletons

This is the hard kind. feuilleton and feuilletons are pronounced identically (\fœj.tɔ̃\) 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) - “feuilleton” sits inside “feuilletons”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53591, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feuilleton is recorded at frequency rank #13,791, classified as anoun, pronounced \fœj.tɔ̃\. feuilletons is at rank #39,800, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fœj.tɔ̃\.

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 53591, this pair ranks #139,672 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feuilleton vs feuilletons

Shared letters: efilnotu. Private to "feuilleton": -. Private to "feuilletons": s.

"feuilleton" · 10 letters · shape CVVVCCVCVC  ·  "feuilletons" · 11 letters · shape CVVVCCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feuilleton ← efuilleton · feiulleton · feuilelton · feuileton · feuilleotn · feuilletno · feuilletonn · feuilletton
  • feuilletons ← efuilletons · feiulletons · feuileltons · feuiletons · feuilleotns · feuilletnos · feuilletonns · feuilletonss

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "feuilleton" and "feuilletons" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fœj.tɔ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "feuilleton" vs "feuilletons" - which ranks higher?
"feuilleton" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,791 in our French list, against #39,800 for "feuilletons". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "feuilleton" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "feuilletons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #139,672 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feuilleton" and "feuilletons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feuilletons vs feuillets". 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 #139,672 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