Which to use
“onglet” and “onglets” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,219
- “onglet” frequency rank
- #37,456
- “onglets” frequency rank
- 57675
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | onglet | onglets |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Embout de faible épaisseur, de forme courbée, et de silhouette pointue, que l’on porte sur l’extrémité d’un doigt, et qui imite un ongle à la manière d’une prothèse. | Pluriel de onglet. |
Same sound, different letters: onglet vs onglets
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - onglet and onglets
This is the hard kind. onglet and onglets are pronounced identically (\ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\) 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) - “onglet” sits inside “onglets”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57675, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
onglet is recorded at frequency rank #20,219, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\. onglets is at rank #37,456, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\.
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 57675, this pair ranks #113,599 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of onglet vs onglets
Shared letters: eglnot. Private to "onglet": -. Private to "onglets": s.
"onglet" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC · "onglets" · 7 letters · shape VCCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "onglet" for "onglets" ever safe?
Frequency check: "onglet" vs "onglets" - 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 "onglet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "onglets" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #113,599 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "onglet" and "onglets" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "oncles vs onglets". 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 #113,599 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.