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“recruteur” and “recruteurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,137
- “recruteur” frequency rank
- #19,385
- “recruteurs” frequency rank
- 40522
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recruteur | recruteurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne qui recrute. | Pluriel de recruteur. |
Same sound, different letters: recruteur vs recruteurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. recruteur runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVVC) against recruteurs's 10 (CVCCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - recruteur / recruteurs
This is the hard kind. recruteur and recruteurs are pronounced identically (\ʁə.kʁy.tœʁ\) 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) - “recruteur” sits inside “recruteurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40522, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recruteur is recorded at frequency rank #21,137, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.kʁy.tœʁ\. recruteurs is at rank #19,385, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.kʁy.tœʁ\.
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 40522, this pair ranks #239,850 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of recruteur vs recruteurs
Shared letters: certu. Private to "recruteur": -. Private to "recruteurs": s.
"recruteur" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC · "recruteurs" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- recruteur ← ercruteur · rceruteur · reccruteur · recrruteur · recrtueur · recruetur · recruteru · recruteurr
- recruteurs ← ercruteurs · rceruteurs · reccruteurs · recrruteurs · recrtueurs · recrueturs · recruterus · recruteurrs
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "recruteur" and "recruteurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "recruteur" or "recruteurs" show up more?
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 "recruteur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "recruteurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #239,850 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recruteur" and "recruteurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recrutée vs recruteur". 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 #239,850 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.