Which to use
“robot” and “robots” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,615
- “robot” frequency rank
- #6,550
- “robots” frequency rank
- 11165
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | robot | robots |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Machine de forme humaine. | Pluriel de robot. |
Same sound, different letters: robot vs robots
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: robot vs robots
This is the hard kind. robot and robots are pronounced identically (\ʁɔ.bo\) 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) - “robot” sits inside “robots”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11165, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
robot is recorded at frequency rank #4,615, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔ.bo\. robots is at rank #6,550, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔ.bo\.
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 11165, this pair ranks #410,219 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of robot vs robots
Shared letters: bort. Private to "robot": -. Private to "robots": s.
"robot" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "robots" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "robot" and "robots" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "robot" or "robots" show up more?
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 "robot" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "robots" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #410,219 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "robot" and "robots" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "robot vs rouet". 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 #410,219 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.