Which to use
“formulaire” and “formulaires” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,166
- “formulaire” frequency rank
- #19,025
- “formulaires” frequency rank
- 28191
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | formulaire | formulaires |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Recueil, répertoire de formules, dressé soit par l’autorité publique, soit par un particulier en vue de l’usage pratique. | Pluriel de formulaire. |
Same sound, different letters: formulaire vs formulaires
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. formulaire runs 10 letters (CVCCVCVVCV) against formulaires's 11 (CVCCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - formulaire / formulaires
This is the hard kind. formulaire and formulaires are pronounced identically (\fɔʁ.my.lɛʁ\) 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) - “formulaire” sits inside “formulaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28191, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
formulaire is recorded at frequency rank #9,166, classified as anoun, pronounced \fɔʁ.my.lɛʁ\. formulaires is at rank #19,025, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fɔʁ.my.lɛʁ\.
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 28191, this pair ranks #324,360 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of formulaire vs formulaires
Shared letters: aefilmoru. Private to "formulaire": -. Private to "formulaires": s.
"formulaire" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCV · "formulaires" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- formulaire ← fformulaire · fomrulaire · formluaire · formmulaire · formualire · formulaier · formulairre · formularie
- formulaires ← fformulaires · fomrulaires · formluaires · formmulaires · formualires · formulaiers · formulairess · formulairres
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "formulaire" and "formulaires" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "formulaire" or "formulaires" show up more?
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 "formulaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "formulaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #324,360 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- 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 #324,360 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.