Which to use
“meeting” and “meetings” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,992
- “meeting” frequency rank
- #17,188
- “meetings” frequency rank
- 25180
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | meeting | meetings |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Réunion ou assemblée publique. | Pluriel de meeting. |
Same sound, different letters: meeting vs meetings
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. meeting runs 7 letters (CVVCVCC) against meetings's 8 (CVVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - meeting and meetings
This is the hard kind. meeting and meetings are pronounced identically (\mi.tiŋ\) 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) - “meeting” sits inside “meetings”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25180, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
meeting is recorded at frequency rank #7,992, classified as anoun, pronounced \mi.tiŋ\. meetings is at rank #17,188, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mi.tiŋ\.
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 25180, this pair ranks #342,329 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of meeting vs meetings
Shared letters: egimnt. Private to "meeting": -. Private to "meetings": s.
"meeting" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC · "meetings" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "meeting" for "meetings" ever safe?
Frequency check: "meeting" vs "meetings" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "meeting" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "meetings" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #342,329 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "meeting" and "meetings" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "meaning vs meeting". 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 #342,329 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.