Which to use
“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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "salopard" and "salopards" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "salopard" vs "salopards" - which ranks higher?
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.