Which to use
“sanglier” and “sangliers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,498
- “sanglier” frequency rank
- #25,493
- “sangliers” frequency rank
- 40991
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sanglier | sangliers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | N’importe quelle espèce de porcin du genre Sus, à l’exception des descendants domestiqués du sanglier d’Eurasie (Sus scrofa) nommés cochons ou porcs. | Pluriel de sanglier. |
Same sound, different letters: sanglier vs sangliers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. sanglier runs 8 letters (CVCCCVVC) against sangliers's 9 (CVCCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: sanglier vs sangliers
This is the hard kind. sanglier and sangliers are pronounced identically (\sɑ̃.ɡli.je\) 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) - “sanglier” sits inside “sangliers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40991, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sanglier is recorded at frequency rank #15,498, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɑ̃.ɡli.je\. sangliers is at rank #25,493, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɑ̃.ɡli.je\.
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 40991, this pair ranks #236,393 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sanglier vs sangliers
Shared letters: aegilnrs. Private to "sanglier": -. Private to "sangliers": -.
"sanglier" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVVC · "sangliers" · 9 letters · shape CVCCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sanglier" and "sangliers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "sanglier" vs "sangliers" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "sanglier" / "sangliers". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "sanglier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sangliers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #236,393 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sanglier" and "sangliers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sangliers vs singuliers". 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 #236,393 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.