Which to use
“postérieure” and “postérieurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,528
- “postérieure” frequency rank
- #27,192
- “postérieurs” frequency rank
- 47720
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | postérieure | postérieurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de postérieur. | Masculin pluriel de postérieur. |
Same sound, different letters: postérieure vs postérieurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. postérieure and postérieurs are pronounced identically (\pɔs.te.ʁjœʁ\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - e in “postérieure” becomes s in “postérieurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47720, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
postérieure is recorded at frequency rank #20,528, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɔs.te.ʁjœʁ\. postérieurs is at rank #27,192, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pɔs.te.ʁjœʁ\.
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 47720, this pair ranks #184,697 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of postérieure vs postérieurs
Shared letters: eioprstué. Private to "postérieure": -. Private to "postérieurs": -.
"postérieure" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVVVCV · "postérieurs" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVVVCC