Which to use
“soudure” and “soudures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,774
- “soudure” frequency rank
- #48,800
- “soudures” frequency rank
- 70574
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | soudure | soudures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de souder ; le résultat de ce travail. | Pluriel de soudure. |
Same sound, different letters: soudure vs soudures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. soudure runs 7 letters (CVVCVCV) against soudures's 8 (CVVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: soudure vs soudures
This is the hard kind. soudure and soudures are pronounced identically (\su.dyʁ\) 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) - “soudure” sits inside “soudures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70574, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
soudure is recorded at frequency rank #21,774, classified as anoun, pronounced \su.dyʁ\. soudures is at rank #48,800, tagged as anoun, pronounced \su.dyʁ\.
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 70574, this pair ranks #50,817 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of soudure vs soudures
Shared letters: deorsu. Private to "soudure": -. Private to "soudures": -.
"soudure" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV · "soudures" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "soudure" for "soudures" ever safe?
Frequency check: "soudure" vs "soudures" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"soudure" and "soudures" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "soudure" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "soudures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #50,817 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "soudure" and "soudures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soudées vs soudures". 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 #50,817 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.