Which to use
“monture” and “montures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,195
- “monture” frequency rank
- #29,450
- “montures” frequency rank
- 46645
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | monture | montures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Animal (cheval, âne, mulet, etc.) que l’on monte. | Pluriel de monture. |
Same sound, different letters: monture vs montures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - monture and montures
This is the hard kind. monture and montures are pronounced identically (\mɔ̃.tyʁ\) 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) - “monture” sits inside “montures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46645, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
monture is recorded at frequency rank #17,195, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɔ̃.tyʁ\. montures is at rank #29,450, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɔ̃.tyʁ\.
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 46645, this pair ranks #193,309 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of monture vs montures
Shared letters: emnortu. Private to "monture": -. Private to "montures": s.
"monture" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "montures" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "monture" and "montures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "monture" or "montures"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "monture" / "montures". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "monture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "montures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #193,309 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "monture" and "montures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "montures vs moulures". 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 #193,309 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.