Which to use
“inondation” and “inondations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,489
- “inondation” frequency rank
- #9,501
- “inondations” frequency rank
- 23990
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | inondation | inondations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Débordement d’un cours d’eau, ou accumulation d’eaux de ruissellement, qui submerge temporairement une zone normalement hors d’eau. | Pluriel de inondation. |
Same sound, different letters: inondation vs inondations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. inondation runs 10 letters (VCVCCVCVVC) against inondations's 11 (VCVCCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: inondation vs inondations
This is the hard kind. inondation and inondations are pronounced identically (\i.nɔ̃.da.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) - “inondation” sits inside “inondations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23990, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
inondation is recorded at frequency rank #14,489, classified as anoun, pronounced \i.nɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃\. inondations is at rank #9,501, tagged as anoun, pronounced \i.nɔ̃.da.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 23990, this pair ranks #349,289 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of inondation vs inondations
Shared letters: adinot. Private to "inondation": -. Private to "inondations": s.
"inondation" · 10 letters · shape VCVCCVCVVC · "inondations" · 11 letters · shape VCVCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- inondation ← innodation · innondation · inodnation · inonadtion · inondaiton · inondatino · inondationn · inondatoin
- inondations ← innodations · innondations · inodnations · inonadtions · inondaitons · inondatinos · inondationns · inondationss
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
"inondation" and "inondations" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "inondation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "inondations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #349,289 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "inondation" and "inondations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "inondations 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 #349,289 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.