Which to use
“indication” and “indications” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,843
- “indication” frequency rank
- #7,977
- “indications” frequency rank
- 15820
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | indication | indications |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’indiquer ; le renseignement fourni. | Pluriel de indication. |
Same sound, different letters: indication vs indications
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Homophone desk: indication vs indications
This is the hard kind. indication and indications are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.di.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) - “indication” sits inside “indications”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15820, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
indication is recorded at frequency rank #7,843, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\. indications is at rank #7,977, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.di.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 15820, this pair ranks #390,710 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of indication vs indications
Shared letters: acdinot. Private to "indication": -. Private to "indications": s.
"indication" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCVVC · "indications" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- indication ← idnication · indciation · inddication · indiaction · indicaiton · indicatino · indicationn · indicatoin
- indications ← idnications · indciations · inddications · indiactions · indicaitons · indicatinos · indicationns · indicationss
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "indication" and "indications" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "indication" or "indications"?
What to do next
"indication" and "indications" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "indication" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "indications" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #390,710 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "indication" and "indications" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "indicatifs vs indications". 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 #390,710 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.