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“ralentissement” and “ralentissements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,343
- “ralentissement” frequency rank
- #48,745
- “ralentissements” frequency rank
- 63088
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ralentissement | ralentissements |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Diminution de vitesse, de mouvement, d’activité. | Pluriel de ralentissement. |
Same sound, different letters: ralentissement vs ralentissements
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 14 letters. ralentissement runs 14 letters (CVCVCCVCCVCVCC) against ralentissements's 15 (CVCVCCVCCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - ralentissement and ralentissements
This is the hard kind. ralentissement and ralentissements are pronounced identically (\ʁa.lɑ̃.tis.mɑ̃\) 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) - “ralentissement” sits inside “ralentissements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63088, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ralentissement is recorded at frequency rank #14,343, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁa.lɑ̃.tis.mɑ̃\. ralentissements is at rank #48,745, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁa.lɑ̃.tis.mɑ̃\.
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 63088, this pair ranks #83,777 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of ralentissement vs ralentissements
Shared letters: aeilmnrst. Private to "ralentissement": -. Private to "ralentissements": -.
"ralentissement" · 14 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVCVCC · "ralentissements" · 15 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- ralentissement ← arlentissement · raelntissement · ralenitssement · ralenntissement · ralentisement · ralentisesment · ralentisseemnt · ralentissemennt
- ralentissements ← arlentissements · raelntissements · ralenitssements · ralenntissements · ralentisements · ralentisesments · ralentisseemnts · ralentissemennts
Frequently Asked Questions
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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 "ralentissement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "ralentissements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #83,777 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ralentissement" and "ralentissements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ralentissement vs ralentissent". 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 #83,777 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.