Which to use
“loulou” and “loulous” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,321
- “loulou” frequency rank
- #38,402
- “loulous” frequency rank
- 60723
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | loulou | loulous |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Petit chien à longs poils, au museau pointu et à la queue recourbée sur le dos. | Pluriel de loulou (chien). |
Same sound, different letters: loulou vs loulous
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. loulou runs 6 letters (CVVCVV) against loulous's 7 (CVVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - loulou and loulous
This is the hard kind. loulou and loulous are pronounced identically (\lu.lu\) 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) - “loulou” sits inside “loulous”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60723, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
loulou is recorded at frequency rank #22,321, classified as anoun, pronounced \lu.lu\. loulous is at rank #38,402, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lu.lu\.
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 60723, this pair ranks #96,135 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of loulou vs loulous
Shared letters: lou. Private to "loulou": -. Private to "loulous": s.
"loulou" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV · "loulous" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "loulou" / "loulous". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "loulou" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "loulous" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #96,135 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "loulou" and "loulous" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lolo vs loulou". 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 #96,135 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.