Which to use
“pelouse” and “pelouses” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,878
- “pelouse” frequency rank
- #23,638
- “pelouses” frequency rank
- 31516
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pelouse | pelouses |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Végétation de très faible hauteur. | Pluriel de pelouse. |
Same sound, different letters: pelouse vs pelouses
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. pelouse runs 7 letters (CVCVVCV) against pelouses's 8 (CVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - pelouse / pelouses
This is the hard kind. pelouse and pelouses are pronounced identically (\pə.luz\) 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) - “pelouse” sits inside “pelouses”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31516, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pelouse is recorded at frequency rank #7,878, classified as anoun, pronounced \pə.luz\. pelouses is at rank #23,638, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pə.luz\.
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 31516, this pair ranks #303,326 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of pelouse vs pelouses
Shared letters: elopsu. Private to "pelouse": -. Private to "pelouses": -.
"pelouse" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV · "pelouses" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "pelouse" and "pelouses" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "pelouse" vs "pelouses" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "pelouse" / "pelouses". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "pelouse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "pelouses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #303,326 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pelouse" and "pelouses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pelouses vs Pérouse". 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 #303,326 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.