mensualité vs mensualités

Which to use

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

#48,663
“mensualité” frequency rank: #34,624
“mensualités” frequency rank: 83287
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	mensualité	mensualités
Definition	Somme d’argent qu’on verse chaque mois en suivant des clauses contractuelles.	Pluriel de mensualité.

Same sound, different letters: mensualité vs mensualités

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. mensualité runs 10 letters (CVCCVVCVCV) against mensualités's 11 (CVCCVVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch

mensualité

11 ch

mensualités

Ear matches; page differs - mensualité and mensualités

This is the hard kind. mensualité and mensualités are pronounced identically (\mɑ̃.sɥa.li.te\) 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) - “mensualité” sits inside “mensualités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 83287, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mensualité is recorded at frequency rank #48,663, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɑ̃.sɥa.li.te\. mensualités is at rank #34,624, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɑ̃.sɥa.li.te\.

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 83287, this pair ranks #15,122 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mensualité vs mensualités

Shared letters: aeilmnstué. Private to "mensualité": -. Private to "mensualités": -.

"mensualité" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCV · "mensualités" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mensualité" for "mensualités" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\mɑ̃.sɥa.li.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

In ordinary French text, does "mensualité" or "mensualités" show up more?

"mensualités" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,624 in our French list, against #48,663 for "mensualité". 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 "mensualité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "mensualités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #15,122 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"mensualité" and "mensualités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mensualité vs mentalité". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #15,122 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.