Which to use
“sentiment” and “sentiments” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,680
- “sentiment” frequency rank
- #2,199
- “sentiments” frequency rank
- 3879
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sentiment | sentiments |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Faculté que nous avons d’apprécier, de sentir directement certaines choses sans le secours du raisonnement, de l’observation ou de l’expérience. | Pluriel de sentiment. |
Same sound, different letters: sentiment vs sentiments
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - sentiment and sentiments
This is the hard kind. sentiment and sentiments are pronounced identically (\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\) 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) - “sentiment” sits inside “sentiments”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3879, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sentiment is recorded at frequency rank #1,680, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. sentiments is at rank #2,199, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\.
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 3879, this pair ranks #432,987 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of sentiment vs sentiments
Shared letters: eimnst. Private to "sentiment": -. Private to "sentiments": -.
"sentiment" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCC · "sentiments" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- sentiment ← esntiment · senitment · senntiment · sentiemnt · sentimennt · sentimentt · sentimetn · sentimment
- sentiments ← esntiments · senitments · senntiments · sentiemnts · sentimennts · sentimenst · sentimentss · sentimentts
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sentiment" and "sentiments" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "sentiment" or "sentiments" show up more?
What to do next
"sentiment" and "sentiments" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "sentiment" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sentiments" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #432,987 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sentiment" and "sentiments" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sentiment vs sentiront". 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 #432,987 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.