Which to use
“recommandation” and “recommandations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,024
- “recommandation” frequency rank
- #5,602
- “recommandations” frequency rank
- 13626
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recommandation | recommandations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Exhortation instante, conseil pressant. | Pluriel de recommandation. |
Same sound, different letters: recommandation vs recommandations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 14 letters. recommandation runs 14 letters (CVCVCCVCCVCVVC) against recommandations's 15 (CVCVCCVCCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: recommandation vs recommandations
This is the hard kind. recommandation and recommandations are pronounced identically (\ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.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) - “recommandation” sits inside “recommandations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13626, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recommandation is recorded at frequency rank #8,024, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃\. recommandations is at rank #5,602, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.da.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 13626, this pair ranks #400,230 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of recommandation vs recommandations
Shared letters: acdeimnort. Private to "recommandation": -. Private to "recommandations": s.
"recommandation" · 14 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVCVVC · "recommandations" · 15 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- recommandation ← ercommandation · rceommandation · reccommandation · recmomandation · recomamndation · recomandation · recommadnation · recommanadtion
- recommandations ← ercommandations · rceommandations · reccommandations · recmomandations · recomamndations · recomandations · recommadnations · recommanadtions
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "recommandation" and "recommandations" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "recommandation" or "recommandations"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "recommandation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "recommandations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #400,230 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 #400,230 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.