Which to use
“injection” and “injections” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,451
- “injection” frequency rank
- #17,457
- “injections” frequency rank
- 24908
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | injection | injections |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action par laquelle on injecte un liquide dans le corps ou dans une plaie. | Pluriel de injection. |
Same sound, different letters: injection vs injections
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. injection runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVVC) against injections's 10 (VCCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - injection / injections
This is the hard kind. injection and injections are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.ʒɛk.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) - “injection” sits inside “injections”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24908, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
injection is recorded at frequency rank #7,451, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒɛk.sjɔ̃\. injections is at rank #17,457, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒɛk.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 24908, this pair ranks #343,888 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of injection vs injections
Shared letters: ceijnot. Private to "injection": -. Private to "injections": s.
"injection" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "injections" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- injection ← ijnection · inejction · injcetion · injecction · injeciton · injectino · injectionn · injectoin
- injections ← ijnections · inejctions · injcetions · injecctions · injecitons · injectinos · injectionns · injectionss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "injection" and "injections" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "injection" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "injections" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #343,888 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "injection" and "injections" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "inception vs injection". 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 #343,888 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.