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“souscripteur” and “souscripteurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#39,048
“souscripteur” frequency rank
#34,759
“souscripteurs” frequency rank
73807
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature souscripteur souscripteurs
Definition Celui qui souscrit un effet de commerce ou un acte. Pluriel de souscripteur.

Same sound, different letters: souscripteur vs souscripteurs

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters. souscripteur runs 12 letters (CVVCCCVCCVVC) against souscripteurs's 13 (CVVCCCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
souscripteur
13 ch
souscripteurs

Same sound, different spelling - souscripteur / souscripteurs

This is the hard kind. souscripteur and souscripteurs are pronounced identically (\sus.kʁip.tœʁ\) 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) - “souscripteur” sits inside “souscripteurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73807, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

souscripteur is recorded at frequency rank #39,048, classified as anoun, pronounced \sus.kʁip.tœʁ\. souscripteurs is at rank #34,759, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sus.kʁip.tœʁ\.

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 73807, this pair ranks #39,191 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of souscripteur vs souscripteurs

Shared letters: ceioprstu. Private to "souscripteur": -. Private to "souscripteurs": -.

"souscripteur" · 12 letters · shape CVVCCCVCCVVC  ·  "souscripteurs" · 13 letters · shape CVVCCCVCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • souscripteur ← osuscripteur · sosucripteur · soucsripteur · sousccripteur · souscirpteur · souscripetur · souscrippteur · souscripteru
  • souscripteurs ← osuscripteurs · sosucripteurs · soucsripteurs · sousccripteurs · souscirpteurs · souscripeturs · souscrippteurs · souscripterus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "souscripteur" for "souscripteurs" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\sus.kʁip.tœʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "souscripteur" or "souscripteurs"?
"souscripteurs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,759 in our French list, against #39,048 for "souscripteur". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"souscripteur" and "souscripteurs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "souscripteur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "souscripteurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #39,191 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 #39,191 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list