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“mémorable” and “mémorables” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#13,432
“mémorable” frequency rank
#26,099
“mémorables” frequency rank
39531
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mémorable mémorables
Definition Qui est digne de mémoire, qui mérite d’être conservé dans la mémoire, qui est remarquable. Pluriel de mémorable.

Same sound, different letters: mémorable vs mémorables

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. mémorable runs 9 letters (CVCVCVCCV) against mémorables's 10 (CVCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
mémorable
10 ch
mémorables

Same sound, different spelling - mémorable / mémorables

This is the hard kind. mémorable and mémorables are pronounced identically (\me.mɔ.ʁabl\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “mémorable” sits inside “mémorables”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39531, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mémorable is recorded at frequency rank #13,432, classified as anadj, pronounced \me.mɔ.ʁabl\. mémorables is at rank #26,099, tagged as anadj, pronounced \me.mɔ.ʁabl\.

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 39531, this pair ranks #247,259 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mémorable vs mémorables

Shared letters: abelmoré. Private to "mémorable": -. Private to "mémorables": s.

"mémorable" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCV  ·  "mémorables" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mémorable" and "mémorables" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\me.mɔ.ʁabl\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "mémorable" vs "mémorables" - which ranks higher?
"mémorable" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,432 in our French list, against #26,099 for "mémorables". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "mémorable" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mémorables" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #247,259 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mémorable" and "mémorables" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mémorables vs mesurables". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #247,259 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list