Which to use
“sacrement” and “sacrements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,475
- “sacrement” frequency rank
- #27,229
- “sacrements” frequency rank
- 43704
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sacrement | sacrements |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de sacrer, consécration, sanctification. | Pluriel de sacrement. |
Same sound, different letters: sacrement vs sacrements
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - sacrement and sacrements
This is the hard kind. sacrement and sacrements are pronounced identically (\sa.kʁə.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) - “sacrement” sits inside “sacrements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43704, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sacrement is recorded at frequency rank #16,475, classified as anoun, pronounced \sa.kʁə.mɑ̃\. sacrements is at rank #27,229, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sa.kʁə.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 43704, this pair ranks #216,081 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sacrement vs sacrements
Shared letters: acemnrst. Private to "sacrement": -. Private to "sacrements": -.
"sacrement" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCC · "sacrements" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- sacrement ← ascrement · saccrement · sacerment · sacreemnt · sacremennt · sacrementt · sacremetn · sacremment
- sacrements ← ascrements · saccrements · sacerments · sacreemnts · sacremennts · sacremenst · sacrementss · sacrementts
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sacrement" and "sacrements" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "sacrement" or "sacrements" show up more?
What to do next
"sacrement" and "sacrements" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "sacrement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sacrements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #216,081 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sacrement" and "sacrements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sacramento vs sacrements". 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 #216,081 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.