Which to use
“filière” and “filières” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,758
- “filière” frequency rank
- #10,005
- “filières” frequency rank
- 15763
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | filière | filières |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Forme creuse permettant de filer un matériau malléable en forme de fil. | Pluriel de filière. |
Same sound, different letters: filière vs filières
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. filière runs 7 letters (CVCVVCV) against filières's 8 (CVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: filière vs filières
This is the hard kind. filière and filières are pronounced identically (\fi.ljɛʁ\) 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) - “filière” sits inside “filières”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15763, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
filière is recorded at frequency rank #5,758, classified as anoun, pronounced \fi.ljɛʁ\. filières is at rank #10,005, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fi.ljɛʁ\.
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 15763, this pair ranks #390,931 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of filière vs filières
Shared letters: efilrè. Private to "filière": -. Private to "filières": s.
"filière" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV · "filières" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "filière" for "filières" ever safe?
Frequency check: "filière" vs "filières" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"filière" and "filières" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "filière" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "filières" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #390,931 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "filière" and "filières" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "familières vs filières". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #390,931 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.