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.
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?
Frequency check: "injonction" vs "injonctions" - which ranks higher?
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.