sécurité vs sécurités, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#471
“sécurité” frequency rank: #38,558
“sécurités” frequency rank: 39029
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sécurité	sécurités
Definition	Confiance, tranquillité d’esprit qui résulte de l’opinion, bien ou mal fondée, qu’on n’a pas à craindre de danger.	Pluriel de sécurité.

Same sound, different letters: sécurité vs sécurités

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. sécurité runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against sécurités's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch

sécurité

9 ch

sécurités

Same sound, different spelling - sécurité / sécurités

This is the hard kind. sécurité and sécurités are pronounced identically (\se.ky.ʁi.te\) 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) - “sécurité” sits inside “sécurités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39029, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sécurité is recorded at frequency rank #471, classified as anoun, pronounced \se.ky.ʁi.te\. sécurités is at rank #38,558, tagged as anoun, pronounced \se.ky.ʁi.te\.

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 39029, this pair ranks #251,014 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sécurité vs sécurités

Shared letters: cirstué. Private to "sécurité": -. Private to "sécurités": -.

"sécurité" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "sécurités" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sécurité" and "sécurités" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\se.ky.ʁi.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Which is more common, "sécurité" or "sécurités"?

"sécurité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #471 in our French list, against #38,558 for "sécurités". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

Full dictionary entry for "sécurité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "sécurités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #251,014 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sécurité" and "sécurités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "secouristes vs sécurités". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #251,014 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.