Which to use
“lecture” and “lectures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,526
- “lecture” frequency rank
- #7,986
- “lectures” frequency rank
- 9512
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | lecture | lectures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’une personne qui lit à haute voix. | Pluriel de lecture. |
Same sound, different letters: lecture vs lectures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - lecture and lectures
This is the hard kind. lecture and lectures are pronounced identically (\lɛk.tyʁ\) 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) - “lecture” sits inside “lectures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9512, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
lecture is recorded at frequency rank #1,526, classified as anoun, pronounced \lɛk.tyʁ\. lectures is at rank #7,986, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lɛk.tyʁ\.
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 9512, this pair ranks #416,375 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of lecture vs lectures
Shared letters: celrtu. Private to "lecture": -. Private to "lectures": s.
"lecture" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "lectures" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "lecture" for "lectures" ever safe?
Frequency check: "lecture" vs "lectures" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "lecture" / "lectures". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "lecture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "lectures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #416,375 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "lecture" and "lectures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lectures vs levures". 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 #416,375 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.