Which to use
“jambon” and “jambons” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,182
- “jambon” frequency rank
- #39,856
- “jambons” frequency rank
- 49038
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | jambon | jambons |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Cuisse (partie supérieure de la patte arrière) d’un suidé (porc ou sanglier), qui a été préparée par cuisson, salage, fumage ou boucanage, comme nourriture. | Pluriel de jambon. |
Same sound, different letters: jambon vs jambons
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. jambon runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against jambons's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: jambon vs jambons
This is the hard kind. jambon and jambons are pronounced identically (\ʒɑ̃.bɔ̃\) 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) - “jambon” sits inside “jambons”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49038, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
jambon is recorded at frequency rank #9,182, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʒɑ̃.bɔ̃\. jambons is at rank #39,856, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʒɑ̃.bɔ̃\.
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 49038, this pair ranks #173,957 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of jambon vs jambons
Shared letters: abjmno. Private to "jambon": -. Private to "jambons": s.
"jambon" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "jambons" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "jambon" and "jambons" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "jambon" vs "jambons" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"jambon" and "jambons" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "jambon" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "jambons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #173,957 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "jambon" and "jambons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jalons vs jambons". 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 #173,957 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.