Which to use
“implication” and “implications” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,195
- “implication” frequency rank
- #15,411
- “implications” frequency rank
- 22606
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | implication | implications |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’impliquer, état d’une personne impliquée dans une affaire criminelle. | Pluriel de implication. |
Same sound, different letters: implication vs implications
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters.
Homophone desk: implication vs implications
This is the hard kind. implication and implications are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.pli.ka.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) - “implication” sits inside “implications”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22606, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
implication is recorded at frequency rank #7,195, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃\. implications is at rank #15,411, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.pli.ka.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 22606, this pair ranks #357,082 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of implication vs implications
Shared letters: acilmnopt. Private to "implication": -. Private to "implications": s.
"implication" · 11 letters · shape VCCCVCVCVVC · "implications" · 12 letters · shape VCCCVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- implication ← imlpication · immplication · impilcation · implciation · impliaction · implicaiton · implicatino · implicationn
- implications ← imlpications · immplications · impilcations · implciations · impliactions · implicaitons · implicatinos · implicationns
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "implication" for "implications" ever safe?
Frequency check: "implication" vs "implications" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"implication" and "implications" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "implication" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "implications" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #357,082 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 #357,082 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.