Which to use
“sondage” and “sondages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,899
- “sondage” frequency rank
- #4,624
- “sondages” frequency rank
- 7523
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sondage | sondages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de sonder un lieu, d'en mesurer la profondeur, la nature ou la composition. | Pluriel de sondage. |
Same sound, different letters: sondage vs sondages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. sondage runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against sondages's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: sondage vs sondages
This is the hard kind. sondage and sondages are pronounced identically (\sɔ̃.daʒ\) 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) - “sondage” sits inside “sondages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7523, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sondage is recorded at frequency rank #2,899, classified as anoun, pronounced \sɔ̃.daʒ\. sondages is at rank #4,624, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sɔ̃.daʒ\.
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 7523, this pair ranks #422,916 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of sondage vs sondages
Shared letters: adegnos. Private to "sondage": -. Private to "sondages": -.
"sondage" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "sondages" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sondage" and "sondages" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "sondage" or "sondages"?
Useful next steps
"sondage" and "sondages" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "sondage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sondages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #422,916 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sondage" and "sondages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sonates vs sondages". 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 #422,916 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.