Which to use
“ouvre” and “ouvres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,369
- “ouvre” frequency rank
- #16,436
- “ouvres” frequency rank
- 17805
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ouvre | ouvres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de ouvrir. | Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de ouvrir. |
Same sound, different letters: ouvre vs ouvres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: ouvre vs ouvres
This is the hard kind. ouvre and ouvres are pronounced identically (\uvʁ\) and both work as averb. 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) - “ouvre” sits inside “ouvres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17805, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ouvre is recorded at frequency rank #1,369, classified as averb, pronounced \uvʁ\. ouvres is at rank #16,436, tagged as averb, pronounced \uvʁ\.
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 17805, this pair ranks #381,407 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of ouvre vs ouvres
Shared letters: eoruv. Private to "ouvre": -. Private to "ouvres": s.
"ouvre" · 5 letters · shape VVCCV · "ouvres" · 6 letters · shape VVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "ouvre" and "ouvres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "ouvre" or "ouvres"?
What to do next
"ouvre" and "ouvres" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "ouvre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "ouvres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #381,407 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ouvre" and "ouvres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "oeuvrer vs ouvres". 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 #381,407 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.