Which to use
“raider” and “raiders” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #31,671
- “raider” frequency rank
- #37,508
- “raiders” frequency rank
- 69179
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | raider | raiders |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Attaquant ou prédateur : financier, banquier d’affaires qui cherche à prendre le contrôle d'une société cotée avec une offre publique d’achat inamicale. | Pluriel de raider. |
Same sound, different letters: raider vs raiders
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. raider runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against raiders's 7 (CVVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: raider vs raiders
This is the hard kind. raider and raiders are pronounced identically (\ʁɛ.dœʁ\) 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) - “raider” sits inside “raiders”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69179, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
raider is recorded at frequency rank #31,671, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁɛ.dœʁ\. raiders is at rank #37,508, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɛ.dœʁ\.
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 69179, this pair ranks #56,156 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of raider vs raiders
Shared letters: adeir. Private to "raider": -. Private to "raiders": s.
"raider" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "raiders" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "raider" and "raiders" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "raider" or "raiders"?
Useful next steps
"raider" and "raiders" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "raider" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "raiders" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #56,156 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "raider" and "raiders" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "raider vs rainier". 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 #56,156 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.