Which to use
“fourniture” and “fournitures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,578
- “fourniture” frequency rank
- #11,413
- “fournitures” frequency rank
- 23991
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | fourniture | fournitures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Provision fournie ou à fournir. | Pluriel de fourniture. |
Same sound, different letters: fourniture vs fournitures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. fourniture runs 10 letters (CVVCCVCVCV) against fournitures's 11 (CVVCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - fourniture / fournitures
This is the hard kind. fourniture and fournitures are pronounced identically (\fuʁ.ni.tyʁ\) 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) - “fourniture” sits inside “fournitures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23991, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
fourniture is recorded at frequency rank #12,578, classified as anoun, pronounced \fuʁ.ni.tyʁ\. fournitures is at rank #11,413, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fuʁ.ni.tyʁ\.
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 23991, this pair ranks #349,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of fourniture vs fournitures
Shared letters: efinortu. Private to "fourniture": -. Private to "fournitures": s.
"fourniture" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCVCV · "fournitures" · 11 letters · shape CVVCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- fourniture ← ffourniture · foruniture · founriture · fourinture · fournitrue · fournitture · fournituer · fourniturre
- fournitures ← ffournitures · forunitures · founritures · fourintures · fournitrues · fournittures · fournituers · fournituress
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "fourniture" for "fournitures" ever safe?
Frequency check: "fourniture" vs "fournitures" - which ranks higher?
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 "fourniture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "fournitures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #349,285 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 #349,285 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.