Which to use
“mensonger” and “mensongers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #45,169
- “mensonger” frequency rank
- #49,794
- “mensongers” frequency rank
- 94963
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mensonger | mensongers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui repose sur un mensonge. | Masculin pluriel de mensonger. |
Same sound, different letters: mensonger vs mensongers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. mensonger runs 9 letters (CVCCVCCVC) against mensongers's 10 (CVCCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - mensonger and mensongers
This is the hard kind. mensonger and mensongers are pronounced identically (\mɑ̃.sɔ̃.ʒe\) 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) - “mensonger” sits inside “mensongers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 94963, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mensonger is recorded at frequency rank #45,169, classified as anadj, pronounced \mɑ̃.sɔ̃.ʒe\. mensongers is at rank #49,794, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mɑ̃.sɔ̃.ʒe\.
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 94963, this pair ranks #1,319 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of mensonger vs mensongers
Shared letters: egmnors. Private to "mensonger": -. Private to "mensongers": -.
"mensonger" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC · "mensongers" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- mensonger ← emnsonger · mennsonger · menosnger · mensnoger · mensogner · mensonegr · mensongerr · mensongger
- mensongers ← emnsongers · mennsongers · menosngers · mensnogers · mensogners · mensonegrs · mensongerrs · mensongerss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mensonger" and "mensongers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "mensonger" or "mensongers" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "mensonger" / "mensongers". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "mensonger" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mensongers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,319 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mensonger" and "mensongers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mensongères vs mensongers". 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 #1,319 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.