Which to use
“shop” and “shops” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #13,063
- “shop” frequency rank
- #44,734
- “shops” frequency rank
- 57797
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | shop | shops |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Atelier, espace de travail, endroit où on fabrique quelque chose. | Pluriel de shop. |
Same sound, different letters: shop vs shops
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. shop runs 4 letters (CCVC) against shops's 5 (CCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: shop vs shops
This is the hard kind. shop and shops are pronounced identically (\ʃɔp\) 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) - “shop” sits inside “shops”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57797, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
shop is recorded at frequency rank #13,063, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʃɔp\. shops is at rank #44,734, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʃɔp\.
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 57797, this pair ranks #112,917 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of shop vs shops
Shared letters: hops. Private to "shop": -. Private to "shops": -.
"shop" · 4 letters · shape CCVC · "shops" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "shop" and "shops" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "shop" vs "shops" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "shop" / "shops". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "shop" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "shops" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #112,917 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "shop" and "shops" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "shops vs sirops". 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 #112,917 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.