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“salopard” and “salopards” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#33,003
“salopard” frequency rank
#33,884
“salopards” frequency rank
66887
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature salopard salopards
Definition Salaud, homme abject, vil, sans scrupules. Pluriel de salopard.

Same sound, different letters: salopard vs salopards

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

8 ch
salopard
9 ch
salopards

Same sound, different spelling - salopard / salopards

This is the hard kind. salopard and salopards are pronounced identically (\sa.lɔ.paʁ\) 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) - “salopard” sits inside “salopards”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66887, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

salopard is recorded at frequency rank #33,003, classified as anoun, pronounced \sa.lɔ.paʁ\. salopards is at rank #33,884, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sa.lɔ.paʁ\.

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 66887, this pair ranks #65,858 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of salopard vs salopards

Shared letters: adloprs. Private to "salopard": -. Private to "salopards": -.

"salopard" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCC  ·  "salopards" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • salopardaslopard · sallopard · saloaprd · salopadr · salopardd · saloparrd · saloppard · saloprad
  • salopardsaslopards · sallopards · saloaprds · salopadrs · salopardds · salopardss · saloparrds · saloparsd

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "salopard" and "salopards" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\sa.lɔ.paʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "salopard" vs "salopards" - which ranks higher?
"salopard" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,003 in our French list, against #33,884 for "salopards". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"salopard" and "salopards" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "salopard" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "salopards" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #65,858 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "salopard" and "salopards" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "salopards vs savoyards". 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 #65,858 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list