Which to use
“jument” and “juments” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,886
- “jument” frequency rank
- #40,832
- “juments” frequency rank
- 60718
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | jument | juments |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Femelle du cheval. | Pluriel de jument. |
Same sound, different letters: jument vs juments
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. jument runs 6 letters (CVCVCC) against juments's 7 (CVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: jument vs juments
This is the hard kind. jument and juments are pronounced identically (\ʒy.mɑ̃\) 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) - “jument” sits inside “juments”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60718, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
jument is recorded at frequency rank #19,886, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʒy.mɑ̃\. juments is at rank #40,832, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʒy.mɑ̃\.
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 60718, this pair ranks #96,169 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of jument vs juments
Shared letters: ejmntu. Private to "jument": -. Private to "juments": s.
"jument" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC · "juments" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "jument" for "juments" ever safe?
Frequency check: "jument" vs "juments" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"jument" and "juments" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "jument" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "juments" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #96,169 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "jument" and "juments" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jacents vs juments". 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 #96,169 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.