Which to use
“sobre” and “sobres” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,781
- “sobre” frequency rank
- #30,813
- “sobres” frequency rank
- 39594
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sobre | sobres |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est tempérant dans le boire et dans le manger. | Pluriel de sobre. |
Same sound, different letters: sobre vs sobres
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. sobre runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against sobres's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - sobre and sobres
This is the hard kind. sobre and sobres are pronounced identically (\sɔbʁ\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “sobre” sits inside “sobres”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39594, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sobre is recorded at frequency rank #8,781, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɔbʁ\. sobres is at rank #30,813, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sɔbʁ\.
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 39594, this pair ranks #246,813 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sobre vs sobres
Shared letters: beors. Private to "sobre": -. Private to "sobres": -.
"sobre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "sobres" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sobre" and "sobres" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "sobre" vs "sobres" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"sobre" and "sobres" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "sobre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sobres" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #246,813 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sobre" and "sobres" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sobres vs sofres". 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 #246,813 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.