Which to use
“homicide” and “homicides” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,330
- “homicide” frequency rank
- #19,856
- “homicides” frequency rank
- 29186
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | homicide | homicides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fait de tuer un être humain. | Pluriel de homicide. |
Same sound, different letters: homicide vs homicides
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. homicide runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against homicides's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - homicide and homicides
This is the hard kind. homicide and homicides are pronounced identically (\ɔ.mi.sid\) 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) - “homicide” sits inside “homicides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29186, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
homicide is recorded at frequency rank #9,330, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɔ.mi.sid\. homicides is at rank #19,856, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɔ.mi.sid\.
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 29186, this pair ranks #318,225 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of homicide vs homicides
Shared letters: cdehimo. Private to "homicide": -. Private to "homicides": s.
"homicide" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "homicides" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "homicide" for "homicides" ever safe?
Frequency check: "homicide" vs "homicides" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"homicide" and "homicides" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "homicide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "homicides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #318,225 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 #318,225 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.