Which to use
“psychiatre” and “psychiatres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,542
- “psychiatre” frequency rank
- #23,662
- “psychiatres” frequency rank
- 33204
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | psychiatre | psychiatres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Médecin spécialiste de la psychiatrie. | Pluriel de psychiatre. |
Same sound, different letters: psychiatre vs psychiatres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. psychiatre runs 10 letters (CCVCCVVCCV) against psychiatres's 11 (CCVCCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: psychiatre vs psychiatres
This is the hard kind. psychiatre and psychiatres are pronounced identically (\psi.kjatʁ\) 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) - “psychiatre” sits inside “psychiatres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33204, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
psychiatre is recorded at frequency rank #9,542, classified as anoun, pronounced \psi.kjatʁ\. psychiatres is at rank #23,662, tagged as anoun, pronounced \psi.kjatʁ\.
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 33204, this pair ranks #292,191 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of psychiatre vs psychiatres
Shared letters: acehiprsty. Private to "psychiatre": -. Private to "psychiatres": -.
"psychiatre" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVVCCV · "psychiatres" · 11 letters · shape CCVCCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- psychiatre ← ppsychiatre · pscyhiatre · pssychiatre · psycchiatre · psychaitre · psychhiatre · psychiarte · psychiater
- psychiatres ← ppsychiatres · pscyhiatres · pssychiatres · psycchiatres · psychaitres · psychhiatres · psychiartes · psychiaters
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "psychiatre" and "psychiatres" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "psychiatre" or "psychiatres"?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "psychiatre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "psychiatres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #292,191 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "psychiatre" and "psychiatres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "psychiatres vs psychiatrie". 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 #292,191 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.