Which to use
“notice” and “notices” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,002
- “notice” frequency rank
- #19,079
- “notices” frequency rank
- 25081
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | notice | notices |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Exposé sommaire, recueil d’indications, instruction succincte. | Pluriel de notice. |
Same sound, different letters: notice vs notices
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. notice runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against notices's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: notice vs notices
This is the hard kind. notice and notices are pronounced identically (\nɔ.tis\) 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) - “notice” sits inside “notices”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25081, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
notice is recorded at frequency rank #6,002, classified as anoun, pronounced \nɔ.tis\. notices is at rank #19,079, tagged as anoun, pronounced \nɔ.tis\.
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 25081, this pair ranks #342,917 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of notice vs notices
Shared letters: ceinot. Private to "notice": -. Private to "notices": s.
"notice" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "notices" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "notice" for "notices" ever safe?
Frequency check: "notice" vs "notices" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "notice" / "notices". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "notice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "notices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #342,917 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "notice" and "notices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "natives vs notices". 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 #342,917 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.