Which to use
“suture” and “sutures” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,179
- “suture” frequency rank
- #41,030
- “sutures” frequency rank
- 62209
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | suture | sutures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Jointure de deux parties du crâne qui entrent l’une dans l’autre par des dentelures et qui paraissent comme cousues ensemble. | Pluriel de suture. |
Same sound, different letters: suture vs sutures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. suture runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against sutures's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - suture and sutures
This is the hard kind. suture and sutures are pronounced identically (\sy.tyʁ\) 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) - “suture” sits inside “sutures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62209, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
suture is recorded at frequency rank #21,179, classified as anoun, pronounced \sy.tyʁ\. sutures is at rank #41,030, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sy.tyʁ\.
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 62209, this pair ranks #88,296 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of suture vs sutures
Shared letters: erstu. Private to "suture": -. Private to "sutures": -.
"suture" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "sutures" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "suture" and "sutures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "suture" or "sutures" show up more?
What to do next
"suture" and "sutures" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "suture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sutures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #88,296 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "suture" and "sutures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soudures vs sutures". 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 #88,296 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.