Which to use
“prompt” and “prompts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,822
- “prompt” frequency rank
- #35,218
- “prompts” frequency rank
- 56040
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | prompt | prompts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est rapide ; qui ne tarde pas ; qui va vite. | Masculin pluriel de prompt. |
Same sound, different letters: prompt vs prompts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. prompt runs 6 letters (CCVCCC) against prompts's 7 (CCVCCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - prompt and prompts
This is the hard kind. prompt and prompts are pronounced identically (\pʁɔ̃\) 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) - “prompt” sits inside “prompts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56040, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
prompt is recorded at frequency rank #20,822, classified as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔ̃\. prompts is at rank #35,218, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔ̃\.
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 56040, this pair ranks #123,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of prompt vs prompts
Shared letters: moprt. Private to "prompt": -. Private to "prompts": s.
"prompt" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCC · "prompts" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "prompt" and "prompts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "prompt" vs "prompts" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"prompt" and "prompts" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "prompt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "prompts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #123,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "prompt" and "prompts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "prompte vs prompts". 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 #123,623 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.