Which to use
“front” and “fronts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,393
- “front” frequency rank
- #16,140
- “fronts” frequency rank
- 17533
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | front | fronts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Partie antérieure de quelque chose. → voir de front | Pluriel de front. |
Same sound, different letters: front vs fronts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: front vs fronts
This is the hard kind. front and fronts are pronounced identically (\fʁɔ̃\) 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) - “front” sits inside “fronts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17533, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
front is recorded at frequency rank #1,393, classified as anoun, pronounced \fʁɔ̃\. fronts is at rank #16,140, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fʁɔ̃\.
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 17533, this pair ranks #382,691 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of front vs fronts
Shared letters: fnort. Private to "front": -. Private to "fronts": s.
"front" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "fronts" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "front" and "fronts" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "front" or "fronts"?
Useful next steps
"front" and "fronts" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "front" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "fronts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #382,691 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "front" and "fronts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fronce vs fronts". 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 #382,691 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.