Which to use
“meurtre” and “meurtres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,484
- “meurtre” frequency rank
- #7,085
- “meurtres” frequency rank
- 9569
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | meurtre | meurtres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Homicide volontaire. | Pluriel de meurtre. |
Same sound, different letters: meurtre vs meurtres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. meurtre runs 7 letters (CVVCCCV) against meurtres's 8 (CVVCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - meurtre and meurtres
This is the hard kind. meurtre and meurtres are pronounced identically (\mœʁtʁ\) 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) - “meurtre” sits inside “meurtres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9569, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
meurtre is recorded at frequency rank #2,484, classified as anoun, pronounced \mœʁtʁ\. meurtres is at rank #7,085, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mœʁtʁ\.
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 9569, this pair ranks #416,191 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of meurtre vs meurtres
Shared letters: emrtu. Private to "meurtre": -. Private to "meurtres": s.
"meurtre" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCCV · "meurtres" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "meurtre" and "meurtres" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "meurtre" vs "meurtres" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "meurtre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "meurtres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #416,191 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "meurtre" and "meurtres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "meurtres vs meutre". 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 #416,191 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.