Which to use
“personnage” and “personnages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,490
- “personnage” frequency rank
- #1,631
- “personnages” frequency rank
- 3121
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | personnage | personnages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne ; avec une certaine idée de grandeur, d’autorité, d’importance sociale. | Pluriel de personnage. |
Same sound, different letters: personnage vs personnages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. personnage runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVCV) against personnages's 11 (CVCCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: personnage vs personnages
This is the hard kind. personnage and personnages are pronounced identically (\pɛʁ.sɔ.naʒ\) 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) - “personnage” sits inside “personnages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3121, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
personnage is recorded at frequency rank #1,490, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.naʒ\. personnages is at rank #1,631, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɛʁ.sɔ.naʒ\.
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 3121, this pair ranks #434,741 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of personnage vs personnages
Shared letters: aegnoprs. Private to "personnage": -. Private to "personnages": -.
"personnage" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCV · "personnages" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- personnage ← eprsonnage · perosnnage · perrsonnage · persnonage · personage · personange · personnaeg · personnagge
- personnages ← eprsonnages · perosnnages · perrsonnages · persnonages · personages · personanges · personnaegs · personnagess
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "personnage" for "personnages" ever safe?
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After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "personnage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "personnages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #434,741 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "personnage" and "personnages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "personnages vs personnes". 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 #434,741 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.