notification vs notifications

Which to use

“notification” and “notifications” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#12,827
“notification” frequency rank: #19,353
“notifications” frequency rank: 32180
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	notification	notifications
Definition	Action de notifier, de faire savoir dans les formes prescrites par la loi.	Pluriel de notification.

Same sound, different letters: notification vs notifications

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters. notification runs 12 letters (CVCVCVCVCVVC) against notifications's 13 (CVCVCVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch

notification

13 ch

notifications

Ear matches; page differs - notification and notifications

This is the hard kind. notification and notifications are pronounced identically (\nɔ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “notification” sits inside “notifications”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32180, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

notification is recorded at frequency rank #12,827, classified as anoun, pronounced \nɔ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\. notifications is at rank #19,353, tagged as anoun, pronounced \nɔ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\.

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 32180, this pair ranks #298,975 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of notification vs notifications

Shared letters: acfinot. Private to "notification": -. Private to "notifications": s.

"notification" · 12 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCVVC · "notifications" · 13 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

notification ← nnotification · noitfication · notfiication · notifciation · notiffication · notifiaction · notificaiton · notificatino
notifications ← nnotifications · noitfications · notfiications · notifciations · notiffications · notifiactions · notificaitons · notificatinos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "notification" and "notifications" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\nɔ.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

In ordinary French text, does "notification" or "notifications" show up more?

"notification" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,827 in our French list, against #19,353 for "notifications". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

Full dictionary entry for "notification" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "notifications" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #298,975 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
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 #298,975 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.