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

#23,044
“tabouret” frequency rank
#46,476
“tabourets” frequency rank
69520
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tabouret tabourets
Definition Petit siège sans dossier ni bras, souvent avec trois ou quatre pieds. Pluriel de tabouret.

Same sound, different letters: tabouret vs tabourets

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. tabouret runs 8 letters (CVCVVCVC) against tabourets's 9 (CVCVVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
tabouret
9 ch
tabourets

Homophone desk: tabouret vs tabourets

This is the hard kind. tabouret and tabourets are pronounced identically (\ta.bu.ʁɛ\) 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) - “tabouret” sits inside “tabourets”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69520, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tabouret is recorded at frequency rank #23,044, classified as anoun, pronounced \ta.bu.ʁɛ\. tabourets is at rank #46,476, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ta.bu.ʁɛ\.

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 69520, this pair ranks #54,809 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of tabouret vs tabourets

Shared letters: abeortu. Private to "tabouret": -. Private to "tabourets": s.

"tabouret" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC  ·  "tabourets" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tabouret ← atbouret · tabbouret · taboruet · tabouert · tabourett · tabourret · tabourte · tabuoret
  • tabourets ← atbourets · tabbourets · taboruets · tabouerts · tabourest · tabouretss · tabouretts · tabourrets

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tabouret" and "tabourets" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ta.bu.ʁɛ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "tabouret" vs "tabourets" - which ranks higher?
"tabouret" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,044 in our French list, against #46,476 for "tabourets". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "tabouret" / "tabourets". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tabouret" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tabourets" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #54,809 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 #54,809 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