injonctionvsinjonctionsWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“injonction” and “injonctions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#14,706
“injonction” frequency rank
#23,246
“injonctions” frequency rank
37952
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature injonction injonctions
Definition Commandement exprès, énoncé d’une manière formelle et impérative, émanant souvent de l’autorité judiciaire. Pluriel de injonction.

Same sound, different letters: injonction vs injonctions

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. injonction runs 10 letters (VCCVCCCVVC) against injonctions's 11 (VCCVCCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
injonction
11 ch
injonctions

Homophone desk: injonction vs injonctions

This is the hard kind. injonction and injonctions are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.ʒɔ̃k.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) - “injonction” sits inside “injonctions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37952, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

injonction is recorded at frequency rank #14,706, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\. injonctions is at rank #23,246, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒɔ̃k.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 37952, this pair ranks #258,782 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of injonction vs injonctions

Shared letters: cijnot. Private to "injonction": -. Private to "injonctions": s.

"injonction" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCCVVC  ·  "injonctions" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • injonction ← ijnonction · injjonction · injnoction · injocntion · injoncction · injonciton · injonctino · injonctionn
  • injonctions ← ijnonctions · injjonctions · injnoctions · injocntions · injoncctions · injoncitons · injonctinos · injonctionns

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "injonction" and "injonctions" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.ʒɔ̃k.sjɔ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "injonction" vs "injonctions" - which ranks higher?
"injonction" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,706 in our French list, against #23,246 for "injonctions". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"injonction" and "injonctions" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "injonction" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "injonctions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #258,782 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "injonction" and "injonctions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "injonctions vs intonations". 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 #258,782 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list