Which to use
“plot” and “plots” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #33,836
- “plot” frequency rank
- #42,529
- “plots” frequency rank
- 76365
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | plot | plots |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Tronc de cône creux, généralement en plastique et empilable, et servant de marquage au sol de parcours. | Pluriel de plot. |
Same sound, different letters: plot vs plots
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. plot runs 4 letters (CCVC) against plots's 5 (CCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: plot vs plots
This is the hard kind. plot and plots are pronounced identically (\plo\) 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) - “plot” sits inside “plots”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76365, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
plot is recorded at frequency rank #33,836, classified as anoun, pronounced \plo\. plots is at rank #42,529, tagged as anoun, pronounced \plo\.
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 76365, this pair ranks #31,359 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of plot vs plots
Shared letters: lopt. Private to "plot": -. Private to "plots": s.
"plot" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "plots" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "plot" and "plots" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "plot" or "plots" show up more?
What to do next
"plot" and "plots" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "plot" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "plots" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #31,359 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "plot" and "plots" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pivots vs plots". 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 #31,359 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.