Which to use
“notaire” and “notaires” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,872
- “notaire” frequency rank
- #12,007
- “notaires” frequency rank
- 19879
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | notaire | notaires |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Officier ministériel qui reçoit ou rédige les contrats, les obligations, les transactions et les autres actes volontaires et leur confère l’authenticité. | Pluriel de notaire. |
Same sound, different letters: notaire vs notaires
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. notaire runs 7 letters (CVCVVCV) against notaires's 8 (CVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - notaire and notaires
This is the hard kind. notaire and notaires are pronounced identically (\nɔ.tɛʁ\) 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) - “notaire” sits inside “notaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19879, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
notaire is recorded at frequency rank #7,872, classified as anoun, pronounced \nɔ.tɛʁ\. notaires is at rank #12,007, tagged as anoun, pronounced \nɔ.tɛʁ\.
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 19879, this pair ranks #371,071 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of notaire vs notaires
Shared letters: aeinort. Private to "notaire": -. Private to "notaires": s.
"notaire" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV · "notaires" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "notaire" and "notaires" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "notaire" vs "notaires" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"notaire" and "notaires" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "notaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "notaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #371,071 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "notaire" and "notaires" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "notaires vs notoires". 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 #371,071 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.