Which to use
“impact” and “impacts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,818
- “impact” frequency rank
- #9,673
- “impacts” frequency rank
- 11491
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | impact | impacts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Choc d’un projectile contre un corps. | Pluriel de impact. |
Same sound, different letters: impact vs impacts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - impact / impacts
This is the hard kind. impact and impacts are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.pakt\) 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) - “impact” sits inside “impacts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11491, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
impact is recorded at frequency rank #1,818, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.pakt\. impacts is at rank #9,673, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.pakt\.
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 11491, this pair ranks #408,944 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of impact vs impacts
Shared letters: acimpt. Private to "impact": -. Private to "impacts": s.
"impact" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC · "impacts" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "impact" and "impacts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "impact" vs "impacts" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"impact" and "impacts" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "impact" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "impacts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #408,944 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "impact" and "impacts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "impacts vs impairs". 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 #408,944 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.