téléviseurvstéléviseursConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#25,161
“téléviseur” frequency rank
#29,583
“téléviseurs” frequency rank
54744
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature téléviseur téléviseurs
Definition Appareil électronique destiné à lire (jouer) des séquences audiovisuelles, généralement pour la télévision, en convertissant un signal pour l'afficher sur un écran interne et reproduire le son sur des haut-parleurs. Pluriel de téléviseur.

Same sound, different letters: téléviseur vs téléviseurs

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. téléviseur runs 10 letters (CVCVCVCVVC) against téléviseurs's 11 (CVCVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
téléviseur
11 ch
téléviseurs

Homophone desk: téléviseur vs téléviseurs

This is the hard kind. téléviseur and téléviseurs are pronounced identically (\te.le.vi.zœʁ\) 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) - “téléviseur” sits inside “téléviseurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54744, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

téléviseur is recorded at frequency rank #25,161, classified as anoun, pronounced \te.le.vi.zœʁ\. téléviseurs is at rank #29,583, tagged as anoun, pronounced \te.le.vi.zœʁ\.

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 54744, this pair ranks #131,985 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of téléviseur vs téléviseurs

Shared letters: eilrstuvé. Private to "téléviseur": -. Private to "téléviseurs": -.

"téléviseur" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVVC  ·  "téléviseurs" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCVVCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "téléviseur" and "téléviseurs" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\te.le.vi.zœʁ\), 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, "téléviseur" or "téléviseurs"?
"téléviseur" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,161 in our French list, against #29,583 for "téléviseurs". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "téléviseur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "téléviseurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #131,985 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "téléviseur" and "téléviseurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "télévisées vs téléviseurs". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #131,985 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