Which to use
“hallucination” and “hallucinations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,585
- “hallucination” frequency rank
- #21,339
- “hallucinations” frequency rank
- 49924
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hallucination | hallucinations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Perception sans objet réel, qui peut affecter la vision, l'audition, l'olfaction, le toucher et le goût. Le sujet n'est pas conscient de son caractère pathologique contrairement à l'hallucinose. | Pluriel de hallucination. |
Same sound, different letters: hallucination vs hallucinations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters. hallucination runs 13 letters (CVCCVCVCVCVVC) against hallucinations's 14 (CVCCVCVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: hallucination vs hallucinations
This is the hard kind. hallucination and hallucinations are pronounced identically (\a.ly.si.na.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “hallucination” sits inside “hallucinations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49924, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hallucination is recorded at frequency rank #28,585, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ly.si.na.sjɔ̃\. hallucinations is at rank #21,339, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.ly.si.na.sjɔ̃\.
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 49924, this pair ranks #166,760 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of hallucination vs hallucinations
Shared letters: achilnotu. Private to "hallucination": -. Private to "hallucinations": s.
"hallucination" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVVC · "hallucinations" · 14 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- hallucination ← ahllucination · hallcuination · halluccination · halluciantion · hallucinaiton · hallucinatino · hallucinationn · hallucinatoin
- hallucinations ← ahllucinations · hallcuinations · halluccinations · halluciantions · hallucinaitons · hallucinatinos · hallucinationns · hallucinationss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "hallucination" and "hallucinations" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "hallucination" or "hallucinations"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "hallucination" / "hallucinations". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "hallucination" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "hallucinations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #166,760 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 #166,760 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.