Which to use
“injure” and “injures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,320
- “injure” frequency rank
- #19,874
- “injures” frequency rank
- 39194
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | injure | injures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Insulte, outrage, ou de fait, ou de parole, ou par écrit. | Pluriel de injure. |
Same sound, different letters: injure vs injures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - injure and injures
This is the hard kind. injure and injures are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.ʒyʁ\) 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) - “injure” sits inside “injures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39194, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
injure is recorded at frequency rank #19,320, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒyʁ\. injures is at rank #19,874, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒyʁ\.
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 39194, this pair ranks #249,780 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of injure vs injures
Shared letters: eijnru. Private to "injure": -. Private to "injures": s.
"injure" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "injures" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "injure" and "injures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "injure" or "injures"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "injure" / "injures". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "injure" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "injures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #249,780 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "injure" and "injures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "infuse vs injure". 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 #249,780 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.