privatisation vs privatisations

Which to use

“privatisation” and “privatisations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#13,235
“privatisation” frequency rank: #34,686
“privatisations” frequency rank: 47921
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	privatisation	privatisations
Definition	Vente ou cession par l'État à des investisseurs de capitaux privés, tout ou partie d'une société publique.	Pluriel de privatisation.

Same sound, different letters: privatisation vs privatisations

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters.

13 ch

privatisation

14 ch

privatisations

Same sound, different spelling - privatisation / privatisations

This is the hard kind. privatisation and privatisations are pronounced identically (\pʁi.va.ti.za.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “privatisation” sits inside “privatisations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47921, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

privatisation is recorded at frequency rank #13,235, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁi.va.ti.za.sjɔ̃\. privatisations is at rank #34,686, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pʁi.va.ti.za.sjɔ̃\.

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 47921, this pair ranks #183,074 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of privatisation vs privatisations

Shared letters: ainoprstv. Private to "privatisation": -. Private to "privatisations": -.

"privatisation" · 13 letters · shape CCVCVCVCVCVVC · "privatisations" · 14 letters · shape CCVCVCVCVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

privatisation ← pirvatisation · pprivatisation · priavtisation · privaitsation · privatiastion · privatisaiton · privatisatino · privatisationn
privatisations ← pirvatisations · pprivatisations · priavtisations · privaitsations · privatiastions · privatisaitons · privatisatinos · privatisationns

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "privatisation" for "privatisations" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\pʁi.va.ti.za.sjɔ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "privatisation" vs "privatisations" - which ranks higher?

"privatisation" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,235 in our French list, against #34,686 for "privatisations". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "privatisation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "privatisations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #183,074 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
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 #183,074 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.