Which to use
“sponsor” and “sponsors” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,276
- “sponsor” frequency rank
- #17,277
- “sponsors” frequency rank
- 34553
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sponsor | sponsors |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Entreprise ou personne soutenant financièrement et matériellement et à des fins publicitaires une activité sportive, culturelle ou scientifique. | Pluriel de sponsor. |
Same sound, different letters: sponsor vs sponsors
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. sponsor runs 7 letters (CCVCCVC) against sponsors's 8 (CCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - sponsor / sponsors
This is the hard kind. sponsor and sponsors are pronounced identically (\spɔ̃.sɔʁ\) 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) - “sponsor” sits inside “sponsors”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34553, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sponsor is recorded at frequency rank #17,276, classified as anoun, pronounced \spɔ̃.sɔʁ\. sponsors is at rank #17,277, tagged as anoun, pronounced \spɔ̃.sɔʁ\.
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 34553, this pair ranks #282,989 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sponsor vs sponsors
Shared letters: noprs. Private to "sponsor": -. Private to "sponsors": -.
"sponsor" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC · "sponsors" · 8 letters · shape CCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "sponsor" and "sponsors" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "sponsor" or "sponsors" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "sponsor" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sponsors" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #282,989 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sponsor" and "sponsors" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sponsorisé vs sponsors". 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 #282,989 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.