Which to use
“foulard” and “foulards” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,043
- “foulard” frequency rank
- #35,953
- “foulards” frequency rank
- 49996
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foulard | foulards |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Étoffe de soie, de soie et coton ou de fibres artificielles, très légère et dont on fait des mouchoirs, des cravates, des fichus, des robes, etc. | Pluriel de foulard. |
Same sound, different letters: foulard vs foulards
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. foulard runs 7 letters (CVVCVCC) against foulards's 8 (CVVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - foulard and foulards
This is the hard kind. foulard and foulards are pronounced identically (\fu.laʁ\) 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) - “foulard” sits inside “foulards”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49996, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foulard is recorded at frequency rank #14,043, classified as anoun, pronounced \fu.laʁ\. foulards is at rank #35,953, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fu.laʁ\.
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 49996, this pair ranks #166,122 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of foulard vs foulards
Shared letters: adfloru. Private to "foulard": -. Private to "foulards": s.
"foulard" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC · "foulards" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "foulard" for "foulards" ever safe?
Frequency check: "foulard" vs "foulards" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "foulard" / "foulards". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "foulard" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "foulards" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #166,122 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foulard" and "foulards" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "foulards vs fuyards". 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 #166,122 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.