Which to use
“smartphone” and “smartphones” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,805
- “smartphone” frequency rank
- #8,039
- “smartphones” frequency rank
- 12844
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | smartphone | smartphones |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Téléphone mobile incluant un ordinateur de poche. | Pluriel de smartphone. |
Same sound, different letters: smartphone vs smartphones
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. smartphone runs 10 letters (CCVCCCCVCV) against smartphones's 11 (CCVCCCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - smartphone and smartphones
This is the hard kind. smartphone and smartphones are pronounced identically (\smaʁt.fɔn\) 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) - “smartphone” sits inside “smartphones”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12844, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
smartphone is recorded at frequency rank #4,805, classified as anoun, pronounced \smaʁt.fɔn\. smartphones is at rank #8,039, tagged as anoun, pronounced \smaʁt.fɔn\.
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 12844, this pair ranks #403,517 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of smartphone vs smartphones
Shared letters: aehmnoprst. Private to "smartphone": -. Private to "smartphones": -.
"smartphone" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCCCVCV · "smartphones" · 11 letters · shape CCVCCCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- smartphone ← msartphone · samrtphone · smarpthone · smarrtphone · smarthpone · smartphhone · smartphnoe · smartphoen
- smartphones ← msartphones · samrtphones · smarpthones · smarrtphones · smarthpones · smartphhones · smartphnoes · smartphoens
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "smartphone" and "smartphones" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "smartphone" or "smartphones" show up more?
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 "smartphone" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "smartphones" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #403,517 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- 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 #403,517 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.