Which to use
“loser” and “losers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,240
- “loser” frequency rank
- #40,356
- “losers” frequency rank
- 68596
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | loser | losers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne sans succès social ou professionnel. Perdant, raté dans la vie. | Pluriel de loser. |
Same sound, different letters: loser vs losers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. loser runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against losers's 6 (CVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: loser vs losers
This is the hard kind. loser and losers are pronounced identically (\lu.zœʁ\) 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) - “loser” sits inside “losers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68596, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
loser is recorded at frequency rank #28,240, classified as anoun, pronounced \lu.zœʁ\. losers is at rank #40,356, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lu.zœʁ\.
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 68596, this pair ranks #58,495 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of loser vs losers
Shared letters: elors. Private to "loser": -. Private to "losers": -.
"loser" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "losers" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "loser" and "losers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "loser" vs "losers" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "loser" / "losers". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "loser" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "losers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #58,495 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "loser" and "losers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "looser vs losers". 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 #58,495 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.