Which to use
“leurre” and “leurres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,184
- “leurre” frequency rank
- #39,876
- “leurres” frequency rank
- 60060
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | leurre | leurres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Morceau de cuir rouge en forme d’oiseau, dont les fauconniers se servaient pour appeler les oiseaux de fauconnerie lorsqu’ils ne revenaient pas au réclame. | Pluriel de leurre. |
Same sound, different letters: leurre vs leurres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. leurre runs 6 letters (CVVCCV) against leurres's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: leurre vs leurres
This is the hard kind. leurre and leurres are pronounced identically (\lœʁ\) 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) - “leurre” sits inside “leurres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60060, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
leurre is recorded at frequency rank #20,184, classified as anoun, pronounced \lœʁ\. leurres is at rank #39,876, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lœʁ\.
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 60060, this pair ranks #99,665 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of leurre vs leurres
Shared letters: elru. Private to "leurre": -. Private to "leurres": s.
"leurre" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "leurres" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "leurre" and "leurres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "leurre" or "leurres" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "leurre" / "leurres". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "leurre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "leurres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #99,665 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "leurre" and "leurres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "leurres vs loutres". 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 #99,665 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.