Which to use
“potager” and “potagers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,562
- “potager” frequency rank
- #45,797
- “potagers” frequency rank
- 64359
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | potager | potagers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Dont on se sert pour le potage, et généralement relatif aux légumes. | Masculin pluriel de potager. |
Same sound, different letters: potager vs potagers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. potager runs 7 letters (CVCVCVC) against potagers's 8 (CVCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - potager and potagers
This is the hard kind. potager and potagers are pronounced identically (\pɔ.ta.ʒe\) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “potager” sits inside “potagers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64359, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
potager is recorded at frequency rank #18,562, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɔ.ta.ʒe\. potagers is at rank #45,797, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pɔ.ta.ʒe\.
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 64359, this pair ranks #77,435 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of potager vs potagers
Shared letters: aegoprt. Private to "potager": -. Private to "potagers": s.
"potager" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "potagers" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "potager" and "potagers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "potager" or "potagers"?
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 "potager" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "potagers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #77,435 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "potager" and "potagers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "potagers vs potiers". 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 #77,435 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.