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

#29,860
“mettrons” frequency rank
#17,998
“mettront” frequency rank
47858
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mettrons mettront
Definition Première personne du pluriel du futur de mettre. Troisième personne du pluriel du futur de mettre.

Same sound, different letters: mettrons vs mettront

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. mettrons and mettront follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
mettrons
8 ch
mettront

Homophone desk: mettrons vs mettront

This is the hard kind. mettrons and mettront are pronounced identically (\mɛ.tʁɔ̃\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - s in “mettrons” becomes t in “mettront”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47858, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mettrons is recorded at frequency rank #29,860, classified as averb, pronounced \mɛ.tʁɔ̃\. mettront is at rank #17,998, tagged as averb, pronounced \mɛ.tʁɔ̃\.

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 47858, this pair ranks #183,593 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mettrons vs mettront

Shared letters: emnort. Private to "mettrons": s. Private to "mettront": -.

"mettrons" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVCC  ·  "mettront" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mettrons ← emttrons · metrons · metrtons · mettorns · mettrnos · mettronns · mettronss · mettrosn
  • mettront ← emttront · metront · metrtont · mettornt · mettrnot · mettronnt · mettrontt · mettrotn

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mettrons" and "mettront" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\mɛ.tʁɔ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "mettrons" vs "mettront" - which ranks higher?
"mettront" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,998 in our French list, against #29,860 for "mettrons". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"mettrons" and "mettront" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mettrons" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mettront" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #183,593 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mettrons" and "mettront" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mettras vs mettrons". 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 #183,593 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