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

#35,154
“mesurable” frequency rank
#43,553
“mesurables” frequency rank
78707
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mesurable mesurables
Definition Qui peut se mesurer. Pluriel de mesurable.

Same sound, different letters: mesurable vs mesurables

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.

9 ch
mesurable
10 ch
mesurables

Homophone desk: mesurable vs mesurables

This is the hard kind. mesurable and mesurables are pronounced identically (\mə.zy.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) - “mesurable” sits inside “mesurables”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 78707, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mesurable is recorded at frequency rank #35,154, classified as anadj, pronounced \mə.zy.ʁabl\. mesurables is at rank #43,553, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mə.zy.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 78707, this pair ranks #25,090 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mesurable vs mesurables

Shared letters: abelmrsu. Private to "mesurable": -. Private to "mesurables": -.

"mesurable" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCV  ·  "mesurables" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mesurableemsurable · mesruable · messurable · mesuarble · mesurabble · mesurabel · mesurablle · mesuralbe
  • mesurablesemsurables · mesruables · messurables · mesuarbles · mesurabbles · mesurabels · mesurabless · mesurablles

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mesurable" and "mesurables" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\mə.zy.ʁabl\), 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 "mesurable" or "mesurables" show up more?
"mesurable" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #35,154 in our French list, against #43,553 for "mesurables". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "mesurable" / "mesurables". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mesurable" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mesurables" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #25,090 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mesurable" and "mesurables" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mémorables vs mesurables". 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 #25,090 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