Which to use
“mortier” and “mortiers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #13,639
- “mortier” frequency rank
- #26,448
- “mortiers” frequency rank
- 40087
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mortier | mortiers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mélange pâteux, destiné à durcir, d’un liant et d’agrégats, servant à lier et sceller les pierres, les parpaings ou les briques d’une construction. Généralement il s'agit d'un mélange de sable, de ciment ou de chaux et d'eau. | Pluriel de mortier. |
Same sound, different letters: mortier vs mortiers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. mortier runs 7 letters (CVCCVVC) against mortiers's 8 (CVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - mortier and mortiers
This is the hard kind. mortier and mortiers are pronounced identically (\mɔʁ.tje\) 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) - “mortier” sits inside “mortiers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40087, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mortier is recorded at frequency rank #13,639, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɔʁ.tje\. mortiers is at rank #26,448, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɔʁ.tje\.
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 40087, this pair ranks #243,144 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of mortier vs mortiers
Shared letters: eimort. Private to "mortier": -. Private to "mortiers": s.
"mortier" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC · "mortiers" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "mortier" for "mortiers" ever safe?
Frequency check: "mortier" vs "mortiers" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"mortier" and "mortiers" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "mortier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mortiers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #243,144 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mortier" and "mortiers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mortiers vs moutier". 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 #243,144 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.