Which to use
“sculpture” and “sculptures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,760
- “sculpture” frequency rank
- #10,071
- “sculptures” frequency rank
- 17831
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sculpture | sculptures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Art de sculpter. | Pluriel de sculpture. |
Same sound, different letters: sculpture vs sculptures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. sculpture runs 9 letters (CCVCCCVCV) against sculptures's 10 (CCVCCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - sculpture and sculptures
This is the hard kind. sculpture and sculptures are pronounced identically (\skyl.tyʁ\) 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) - “sculpture” sits inside “sculptures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17831, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sculpture is recorded at frequency rank #7,760, classified as anoun, pronounced \skyl.tyʁ\. sculptures is at rank #10,071, tagged as anoun, pronounced \skyl.tyʁ\.
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 17831, this pair ranks #381,269 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of sculpture vs sculptures
Shared letters: celprstu. Private to "sculpture": -. Private to "sculptures": -.
"sculpture" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCCVCV · "sculptures" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- sculpture ← csulpture · scculpture · sclupture · scullpture · sculppture · sculptrue · sculptture · sculptuer
- sculptures ← csulptures · scculptures · scluptures · scullptures · sculpptures · sculptrues · sculpttures · sculptuers
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sculpture" and "sculptures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "sculpture" or "sculptures" show up more?
Useful next steps
"sculpture" and "sculptures" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "sculpture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sculptures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #381,269 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sculpture" and "sculptures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sculpte vs sculpture". 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 #381,269 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.