Which to use
“licorne” and “licornes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,966
- “licorne” frequency rank
- #32,046
- “licornes” frequency rank
- 47012
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | licorne | licornes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Quadrupède fabuleux, ressemblant à une biche portant une corne au milieu du front, à queue de lion et barbiche de chèvre, dont il est souvent question dans les bestiaires et les légendes du Moyen Âge. | Pluriel de licorne. |
Same sound, different letters: licorne vs licornes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - licorne / licornes
This is the hard kind. licorne and licornes are pronounced identically (\li.kɔʁn\) 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) - “licorne” sits inside “licornes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47012, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
licorne is recorded at frequency rank #14,966, classified as anoun, pronounced \li.kɔʁn\. licornes is at rank #32,046, tagged as anoun, pronounced \li.kɔʁn\.
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 47012, this pair ranks #190,342 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of licorne vs licornes
Shared letters: ceilnor. Private to "licorne": -. Private to "licornes": s.
"licorne" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "licornes" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "licorne" and "licornes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "licorne" or "licornes"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "licorne" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "licornes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #190,342 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "licorne" and "licornes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "licorne vs Lorne". 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 #190,342 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.