Which to use
“postulant” and “postulants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #46,962
- “postulant” frequency rank
- #47,523
- “postulants” frequency rank
- 94485
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | postulant | postulants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celui qui sollicite, qui fait des démarches pour obtenir quelque chose. | Pluriel de postulant. |
Same sound, different letters: postulant vs postulants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Homophone desk: postulant vs postulants
This is the hard kind. postulant and postulants are pronounced identically (\pɔs.ty.lɑ̃\) 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) - “postulant” sits inside “postulants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 94485, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
postulant is recorded at frequency rank #46,962, classified as anoun, pronounced \pɔs.ty.lɑ̃\. postulants is at rank #47,523, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pɔs.ty.lɑ̃\.
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 94485, this pair ranks #1,597 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of postulant vs postulants
Shared letters: alnopstu. Private to "postulant": -. Private to "postulants": -.
"postulant" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCC · "postulants" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- postulant ← opstulant · posstulant · postluant · posttulant · postualnt · postulannt · postulantt · postulatn
- postulants ← opstulants · posstulants · postluants · posttulants · postualnts · postulannts · postulanst · postulantss
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "postulant" and "postulants" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "postulant" or "postulants" show up more?
What to do next
"postulant" and "postulants" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "postulant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "postulants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,597 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "postulant" and "postulants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "postulants vs postulats". 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 #1,597 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.