Which to use
“poumon” and “poumons” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,024
- “poumon” frequency rank
- #9,217
- “poumons” frequency rank
- 21241
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | poumon | poumons |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Viscère spongieux renfermé dans l’intérieur de la poitrine et qui est le principal organe de la respiration. | Pluriel de poumon. |
Same sound, different letters: poumon vs poumons
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. poumon runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against poumons's 7 (CVVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: poumon vs poumons
This is the hard kind. poumon and poumons are pronounced identically (\pu.mɔ̃\) 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) - “poumon” sits inside “poumons”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21241, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
poumon is recorded at frequency rank #12,024, classified as anoun, pronounced \pu.mɔ̃\. poumons is at rank #9,217, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pu.mɔ̃\.
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 21241, this pair ranks #364,195 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of poumon vs poumons
Shared letters: mnopu. Private to "poumon": -. Private to "poumons": s.
"poumon" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "poumons" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
"poumon" and "poumons" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "poumon" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "poumons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #364,195 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "poumon" and "poumons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "poulin vs poumon". 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 #364,195 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.