Which to use
“monument” and “monuments” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,782
- “monument” frequency rank
- #4,693
- “monuments” frequency rank
- 9475
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | monument | monuments |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ouvrage d’architecture et de sculpture fait pour transmettre à la postérité la mémoire de quelque personne illustre ou de quelque événement important. | Pluriel de monument. |
Same sound, different letters: monument vs monuments
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - monument / monuments
This is the hard kind. monument and monuments are pronounced identically (\mɔ.ny.mɑ̃\) 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) - “monument” sits inside “monuments”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9475, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
monument is recorded at frequency rank #4,782, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɔ.ny.mɑ̃\. monuments is at rank #4,693, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɔ.ny.mɑ̃\.
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 9475, this pair ranks #416,505 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of monument vs monuments
Shared letters: emnotu. Private to "monument": -. Private to "monuments": s.
"monument" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCC · "monuments" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "monument" for "monuments" ever safe?
Which is more common, "monument" or "monuments"?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "monument" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "monuments" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #416,505 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "monument" and "monuments" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "monument vs movement". 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 #416,505 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.