Which to use
“poutre” and “poutres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,725
- “poutre” frequency rank
- #18,024
- “poutres” frequency rank
- 33749
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | poutre | poutres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pièce de bois de forme allongée, servant dans les constructions à supporter une charpente ou un parquet. | Pluriel de poutre. |
Same sound, different letters: poutre vs poutres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. poutre runs 6 letters (CVVCCV) against poutres's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - poutre and poutres
This is the hard kind. poutre and poutres are pronounced identically (\putʁ\) 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) - “poutre” sits inside “poutres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33749, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
poutre is recorded at frequency rank #15,725, classified as anoun, pronounced \putʁ\. poutres is at rank #18,024, tagged as anoun, pronounced \putʁ\.
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 33749, this pair ranks #288,523 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of poutre vs poutres
Shared letters: eoprtu. Private to "poutre": -. Private to "poutres": s.
"poutre" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "poutres" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "poutre" and "poutres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "poutre" vs "poutres" - which ranks higher?
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 "poutre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "poutres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #288,523 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "poutre" and "poutres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pourpres vs poutres". 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 #288,523 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.