Which to use
“lavage” and “lavages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,243
- “lavage” frequency rank
- #49,189
- “lavages” frequency rank
- 60432
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | lavage | lavages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de laver. | Pluriel de lavage. |
Same sound, different letters: lavage vs lavages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. lavage runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against lavages's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - lavage and lavages
This is the hard kind. lavage and lavages are pronounced identically (\la.vaʒ\) 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) - “lavage” sits inside “lavages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60432, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
lavage is recorded at frequency rank #11,243, classified as anoun, pronounced \la.vaʒ\. lavages is at rank #49,189, tagged as anoun, pronounced \la.vaʒ\.
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 60432, this pair ranks #97,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of lavage vs lavages
Shared letters: aeglv. Private to "lavage": -. Private to "lavages": s.
"lavage" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "lavages" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "lavage" and "lavages" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "lavage" or "lavages" show up more?
After this comparison
"lavage" and "lavages" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "lavage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "lavages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #97,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "lavage" and "lavages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lavages vs levage". 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 #97,623 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.