Which to use
“horreur” and “horreurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,077
- “horreur” frequency rank
- #11,599
- “horreurs” frequency rank
- 14676
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | horreur | horreurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mouvement de l’âme généralement accompagné d’un frémissement physique, d’un frisson du corps et causé par quelque chose d’affreux, de révoltant ou de terrible. | Pluriel de horreur. |
Same sound, different letters: horreur vs horreurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. horreur runs 7 letters (CVCCVVC) against horreurs's 8 (CVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: horreur vs horreurs
This is the hard kind. horreur and horreurs are pronounced identically (^((h muet))\ɔ.ʁœʁ\) 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) - “horreur” sits inside “horreurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14676, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
horreur is recorded at frequency rank #3,077, classified as anoun, pronounced ^((h muet))\ɔ.ʁœʁ\. horreurs is at rank #11,599, tagged as anoun, pronounced ^((h muet))\ɔ.ʁœʁ\.
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 14676, this pair ranks #395,667 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of horreur vs horreurs
Shared letters: ehoru. Private to "horreur": -. Private to "horreurs": s.
"horreur" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC · "horreurs" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "horreur" for "horreurs" ever safe?
Which is more common, "horreur" or "horreurs"?
What to do next
"horreur" and "horreurs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "horreur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "horreurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #395,667 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "horreur" and "horreurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "horreur vs horror". 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 #395,667 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.