Which to use
“responsable” and “responsables” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,044
- “responsable” frequency rank
- #2,447
- “responsables” frequency rank
- 3491
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | responsable | responsables |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui doit répondre de ses propres actions ou de celles des autres, qui doit être garant de quelque chose. | Pluriel de responsable. |
Same sound, different letters: responsable vs responsables
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - responsable and responsables
This is the hard kind. responsable and responsables are pronounced identically (\ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “responsable” sits inside “responsables”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3491, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
responsable is recorded at frequency rank #1,044, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\. responsables is at rank #2,447, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\.
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 3491, this pair ranks #433,895 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of responsable vs responsables
Shared letters: abelnoprs. Private to "responsable": -. Private to "responsables": -.
"responsable" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCCV · "responsables" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- responsable ← ersponsable · repsonsable · resopnsable · respnosable · responasble · responnsable · responsabble · responsabel
- responsables ← ersponsables · repsonsables · resopnsables · respnosables · responasbles · responnsables · responsabbles · responsabels
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 "responsable" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "responsables" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #433,895 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 #433,895 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.