Which to use
“marabout” and “marabouts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,613
- “marabout” frequency rank
- #48,031
- “marabouts” frequency rank
- 70644
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marabout | marabouts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Nom de religieux très vénérés chez les musulmans et qui se trouvent en assez grand nombre dans l’Afrique septentrionale. | Pluriel de marabout. |
Same sound, different letters: marabout vs marabouts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Homophone desk: marabout vs marabouts
This is the hard kind. marabout and marabouts are pronounced identically (\ma.ʁa.bu\) 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) - “marabout” sits inside “marabouts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70644, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
marabout is recorded at frequency rank #22,613, classified as anoun, pronounced \ma.ʁa.bu\. marabouts is at rank #48,031, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ma.ʁa.bu\.
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 70644, this pair ranks #50,583 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of marabout vs marabouts
Shared letters: abmortu. Private to "marabout": -. Private to "marabouts": s.
"marabout" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "marabouts" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "marabout" and "marabouts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "marabout" or "marabouts"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "marabout" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "marabouts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #50,583 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- 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 #50,583 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.