Which to use
“sacrifice” and “sacrifices” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,438
- “sacrifice” frequency rank
- #9,555
- “sacrifices” frequency rank
- 15993
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sacrifice | sacrifices |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action par laquelle on offre certaines choses ou certaines victimes aux dieux, ou à Dieu, avec certaines cérémonies, pour rendre hommage à sa souveraine puissance. | Pluriel de sacrifice. |
Same sound, different letters: sacrifice vs sacrifices
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. sacrifice runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVCV) against sacrifices's 10 (CVCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - sacrifice and sacrifices
This is the hard kind. sacrifice and sacrifices are pronounced identically (\sa.kʁi.fis\) 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) - “sacrifice” sits inside “sacrifices”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15993, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sacrifice is recorded at frequency rank #6,438, classified as anoun, pronounced \sa.kʁi.fis\. sacrifices is at rank #9,555, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sa.kʁi.fis\.
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 15993, this pair ranks #389,891 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of sacrifice vs sacrifices
Shared letters: acefirs. Private to "sacrifice": -. Private to "sacrifices": -.
"sacrifice" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV · "sacrifices" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- sacrifice ← ascrifice · saccrifice · sacirfice · sacrfiice · sacrifcie · sacriffice · sacrificce · sacrifiec
- sacrifices ← ascrifices · saccrifices · sacirfices · sacrfiices · sacrifcies · sacriffices · sacrificces · sacrificess
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sacrifice" and "sacrifices" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "sacrifice" or "sacrifices" show up more?
What to do next
"sacrifice" and "sacrifices" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "sacrifice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sacrifices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #389,891 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sacrifice" and "sacrifices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sacrifices vs sacrifiée". 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 #389,891 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.