Which to use
“souscription” and “souscriptions” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,062
- “souscription” frequency rank
- #42,063
- “souscriptions” frequency rank
- 54125
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | souscription | souscriptions |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Signature qu’on met au-dessous d’un acte pour l’approuver. | Pluriel de souscription. |
Same sound, different letters: souscription vs souscriptions
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters. souscription runs 12 letters (CVVCCCVCCVVC) against souscriptions's 13 (CVVCCCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - souscription / souscriptions
This is the hard kind. souscription and souscriptions are pronounced identically (\sus.kʁip.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “souscription” sits inside “souscriptions”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54125, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
souscription is recorded at frequency rank #12,062, classified as anoun, pronounced \sus.kʁip.sjɔ̃\. souscriptions is at rank #42,063, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sus.kʁip.sjɔ̃\.
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 54125, this pair ranks #136,105 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of souscription vs souscriptions
Shared letters: cinoprstu. Private to "souscription": -. Private to "souscriptions": -.
"souscription" · 12 letters · shape CVVCCCVCCVVC · "souscriptions" · 13 letters · shape CVVCCCVCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- souscription ← osuscription · sosucription · soucsription · sousccription · souscirption · souscripiton · souscripption · souscriptino
- souscriptions ← osuscriptions · sosucriptions · soucsriptions · sousccriptions · souscirptions · souscripitons · souscripptions · souscriptinos
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "souscription" for "souscriptions" ever safe?
Which is more common, "souscription" or "souscriptions"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "souscription" / "souscriptions". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "souscription" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "souscriptions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #136,105 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 #136,105 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.