Which to use
“migration” and “migrations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,516
- “migration” frequency rank
- #12,814
- “migrations” frequency rank
- 22330
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | migration | migrations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de migrer d’un pays dans un autre pour s’y établir. | Pluriel de migration. |
Same sound, different letters: migration vs migrations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Homophone desk: migration vs migrations
This is the hard kind. migration and migrations are pronounced identically (\mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “migration” sits inside “migrations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22330, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
migration is recorded at frequency rank #9,516, classified as anoun, pronounced \mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃\. migrations is at rank #12,814, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃\.
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 22330, this pair ranks #358,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of migration vs migrations
Shared letters: agimnort. Private to "migration": -. Private to "migrations": s.
"migration" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC · "migrations" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- migration ← imgration · mgiration · migartion · miggration · migraiton · migratino · migrationn · migratoin
- migrations ← imgrations · mgirations · migartions · miggrations · migraitons · migratinos · migrationns · migrationss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "migration" and "migrations" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "migration" or "migrations"?
After this comparison
"migration" and "migrations" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "migration" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "migrations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #358,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- 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 #358,566 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.