Which to use
“gousse” and “gousses” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #41,314
- “gousse” frequency rank
- #37,843
- “gousses” frequency rank
- 79157
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | gousse | gousses |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fruit sec, dépourvu de cloison, à deux valves, garnies chacune d’une rangée de graines, et avec deux fentes de déhiscence (mot utilisé notamment pour les fruits des légumineuses). | Pluriel de gousse. |
Same sound, different letters: gousse vs gousses
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - gousse / gousses
This is the hard kind. gousse and gousses are pronounced identically (\ɡus\) 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) - “gousse” sits inside “gousses”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79157, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
gousse is recorded at frequency rank #41,314, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡus\. gousses is at rank #37,843, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɡus\.
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 79157, this pair ranks #23,975 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of gousse vs gousses
Shared letters: egosu. Private to "gousse": -. Private to "gousses": -.
"gousse" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "gousses" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "gousse" for "gousses" ever safe?
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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 "gousse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "gousses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #23,975 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "gousse" and "gousses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "gauss vs gousse". 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 #23,975 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.