Which to use
“guirlande” and “guirlandes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #32,424
- “guirlande” frequency rank
- #27,829
- “guirlandes” frequency rank
- 60253
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | guirlande | guirlandes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Chaîne, feston de fleurs ou de feuillage, ou de leur imitation synthétique. | Pluriel de guirlande. |
Same sound, different letters: guirlande vs guirlandes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. guirlande runs 9 letters (CVVCCVCCV) against guirlandes's 10 (CVVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - guirlande and guirlandes
This is the hard kind. guirlande and guirlandes are pronounced identically (\ɡiʁ.lɑ̃d\) 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) - “guirlande” sits inside “guirlandes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60253, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
guirlande is recorded at frequency rank #32,424, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡiʁ.lɑ̃d\. guirlandes is at rank #27,829, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɡiʁ.lɑ̃d\.
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 60253, this pair ranks #98,628 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of guirlande vs guirlandes
Shared letters: adegilnru. Private to "guirlande": -. Private to "guirlandes": s.
"guirlande" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCCV · "guirlandes" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- guirlande ← gguirlande · giurlande · guilrande · guiralnde · guirladne · guirlandde · guirlaned · guirlannde
- guirlandes ← gguirlandes · giurlandes · guilrandes · guiralndes · guirladnes · guirlanddes · guirlandess · guirlandse
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "guirlande" for "guirlandes" ever safe?
Which is more common, "guirlande" or "guirlandes"?
What to do next
"guirlande" and "guirlandes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "guirlande" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "guirlandes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #98,628 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "guirlande" and "guirlandes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Guérande vs guirlande". 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 #98,628 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.