Which to use
“piqûre” and “piqûres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,280
- “piqûre” frequency rank
- #21,112
- “piqûres” frequency rank
- 39392
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | piqûre | piqûres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Petite blessure que fait une chose ou un animal qui pique. | Pluriel de piqûre. |
Same sound, different letters: piqûre vs piqûres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. piqûre runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against piqûres's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - piqûre and piqûres
This is the hard kind. piqûre and piqûres are pronounced identically (\pi.kyʁ\) 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) - “piqûre” sits inside “piqûres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39392, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
piqûre is recorded at frequency rank #18,280, classified as anoun, pronounced \pi.kyʁ\. piqûres is at rank #21,112, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pi.kyʁ\.
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 39392, this pair ranks #248,317 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of piqûre vs piqûres
Shared letters: eipqrû. Private to "piqûre": -. Private to "piqûres": s.
"piqûre" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "piqûres" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "piqûre" and "piqûres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "piqûre" or "piqûres"?
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 "piqûre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "piqûres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #248,317 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "piqûre" and "piqûres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pieuses vs piqûres". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #248,317 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.