Which to use
“société” and “sociétés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #252
- “société” frequency rank
- #1,404
- “sociétés” frequency rank
- 1656
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | société | sociétés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Assemblage d’humains qui sont unis par la nature ou par des lois ; commerce que les humains réunis ont naturellement les uns avec les autres. | Pluriel de société. |
Same sound, different letters: société vs sociétés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. société runs 7 letters (CVCVVCV) against sociétés's 8 (CVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: société vs sociétés
This is the hard kind. société and sociétés are pronounced identically (\sɔ.sje.te\) 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) - “société” sits inside “sociétés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1656, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
société is recorded at frequency rank #252, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.sje.te\. sociétés is at rank #1,404, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɔ.sje.te\.
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 1656, this pair ranks #437,628 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of société vs sociétés
Shared letters: ciosté. Private to "société": -. Private to "sociétés": -.
"société" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV · "sociétés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "société" and "sociétés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "société" vs "sociétés" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "société" / "sociétés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "société" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sociétés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #437,628 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "société" and "sociétés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "société vs soviet". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #437,628 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.