Which to use
“merveille” and “merveilles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,413
- “merveille” frequency rank
- #8,426
- “merveilles” frequency rank
- 14839
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | merveille | merveilles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Chose qui cause une grande admiration. | Pluriel de merveille. |
Same sound, different letters: merveille vs merveilles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. merveille runs 9 letters (CVCCVVCCV) against merveilles's 10 (CVCCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: merveille vs merveilles
This is the hard kind. merveille and merveilles are pronounced identically (\mɛʁ.vɛj\) 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) - “merveille” sits inside “merveilles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14839, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
merveille is recorded at frequency rank #6,413, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɛʁ.vɛj\. merveilles is at rank #8,426, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɛʁ.vɛj\.
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 14839, this pair ranks #394,995 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of merveille vs merveilles
Shared letters: eilmrv. Private to "merveille": -. Private to "merveilles": s.
"merveille" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVVCCV · "merveilles" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- merveille ← emrveille · mereville · merrveille · merveile · merveilel · mervelile · mervielle · mervveille
- merveilles ← emrveilles · merevilles · merrveilles · merveilels · merveiles · merveilless · merveillse · merveliles
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "merveille" and "merveilles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "merveille" vs "merveilles" - 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 "merveille" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "merveilles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #394,995 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "merveille" and "merveilles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Melville vs merveille". 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 #394,995 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.