Which to use
“offre” and “offres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #633
- “offre” frequency rank
- #2,939
- “offres” frequency rank
- 3572
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | offre | offres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’offrir. | Pluriel de offre. |
Same sound, different letters: offre vs offres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - offre / offres
This is the hard kind. offre and offres are pronounced identically (\ɔfʁ\) 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) - “offre” sits inside “offres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3572, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
offre is recorded at frequency rank #633, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɔfʁ\. offres is at rank #2,939, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɔfʁ\.
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 3572, this pair ranks #433,711 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of offre vs offres
Shared letters: efor. Private to "offre": -. Private to "offres": s.
"offre" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV · "offres" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "offre" for "offres" ever safe?
Frequency check: "offre" vs "offres" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "offre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "offres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #433,711 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "offre" and "offres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "offres vs outrés". 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 #433,711 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.