Which to use
“ignorant” and “ignorants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,071
- “ignorant” frequency rank
- #19,313
- “ignorants” frequency rank
- 30384
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ignorant | ignorants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui n’est pas instruit de certaines choses, qui ignore certaines choses. | Masculin pluriel de ignorant. |
Same sound, different letters: ignorant vs ignorants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. ignorant runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCC) against ignorants's 9 (VCCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - ignorant / ignorants
This is the hard kind. ignorant and ignorants are pronounced identically (\i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “ignorant” sits inside “ignorants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30384, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ignorant is recorded at frequency rank #11,071, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃\. ignorants is at rank #19,313, tagged as anadj, pronounced \i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃\.
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 30384, this pair ranks #310,667 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of ignorant vs ignorants
Shared letters: aginort. Private to "ignorant": -. Private to "ignorants": s.
"ignorant" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC · "ignorants" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "ignorant" and "ignorants" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "ignorant" or "ignorants"?
Useful next steps
"ignorant" and "ignorants" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "ignorant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "ignorants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #310,667 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ignorant" and "ignorants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ignorants vs intrants". 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 #310,667 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.