Which to use
“sergent” and “sergents” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,243
- “sergent” frequency rank
- #44,728
- “sergents” frequency rank
- 51971
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sergent | sergents |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Officier de justice qui remplissait les fonctions d’un huissier d’aujourd’hui et qui était chargé d’arrêter ceux contre lesquels il y avait contrainte par corps. | Pluriel de sergent. |
Same sound, different letters: sergent vs sergents
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. sergent runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against sergents's 8 (CVCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: sergent vs sergents
This is the hard kind. sergent and sergents are pronounced identically (\sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\) 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) - “sergent” sits inside “sergents”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51971, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sergent is recorded at frequency rank #7,243, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\. sergents is at rank #44,728, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\.
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 51971, this pair ranks #151,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sergent vs sergents
Shared letters: egnrst. Private to "sergent": -. Private to "sergents": -.
"sergent" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC · "sergents" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sergent" and "sergents" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "sergent" or "sergents" show up more?
Useful next steps
"sergent" and "sergents" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "sergent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sergents" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #151,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sergent" and "sergents" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sergents vs serpente". 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 #151,088 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.