Which to use
“participation” and “participations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,709
- “participation” frequency rank
- #12,634
- “participations” frequency rank
- 14343
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | participation | participations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de participer à quelque chose. | Pluriel de participation. |
Same sound, different letters: participation vs participations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - participation and participations
This is the hard kind. participation and participations are pronounced identically (\paʁ.ti.si.pa.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) - “participation” sits inside “participations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14343, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
participation is recorded at frequency rank #1,709, classified as anoun, pronounced \paʁ.ti.si.pa.sjɔ̃\. participations is at rank #12,634, tagged as anoun, pronounced \paʁ.ti.si.pa.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 14343, this pair ranks #397,103 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of participation vs participations
Shared letters: acinoprt. Private to "participation": -. Private to "participations": s.
"participation" · 13 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVVC · "participations" · 14 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- participation ← aprticipation · paritcipation · parrticipation · partciipation · particcipation · particiaption · participaiton · participatino
- participations ← aprticipations · paritcipations · parrticipations · partciipations · particcipations · particiaptions · participaitons · participatinos
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "participation" and "participations" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "participation" vs "participations" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "participation" / "participations". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "participation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "participations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #397,103 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "participation" and "participations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "participation vs participative". 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 #397,103 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.