Which to use
“guerrière” is a noun and “guerriers” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #18,211
- “guerrière” frequency rank
- #8,550
- “guerriers” frequency rank
- 26761
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guerrière | guerriers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celle qui fait la guerre et qui s’y plaît. | Masculin pluriel de guerrier. |
Where the eye mixes guerrière and guerriers
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: guerrière vs guerriers
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: guerrière is \ɡɛ.ʁjɛʁ\ while guerriers is \ɡɛ.ʁje\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26761, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guerrière is recorded at frequency rank #18,211, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡɛ.ʁjɛʁ\. guerriers is at rank #8,550, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɡɛ.ʁje\.
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 26761, this pair ranks #333,009 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of guerrière vs guerriers
Shared letters: egiru. Private to "guerrière": è. Private to "guerriers": s.
"guerrière" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVVCV · "guerriers" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- guerriers ← geurriers · gguerriers · gueriers · guerirers · guerreirs · guerrierrs · guerrierss · guerriesr
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "guerrière" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guerriers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #333,009 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guerrière" and "guerriers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guerrière vs guerrières". 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 #333,009 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.