Which to use
“temporaire” and “temporaires” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,195
- “temporaire” frequency rank
- #11,141
- “temporaires” frequency rank
- 16336
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | temporaire | temporaires |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pour une durée limitée, éphémère. | Pluriel de temporaire. |
Same sound, different letters: temporaire vs temporaires
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. temporaire runs 10 letters (CVCCVCVVCV) against temporaires's 11 (CVCCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - temporaire / temporaires
This is the hard kind. temporaire and temporaires are pronounced identically (\tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛʁ\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “temporaire” sits inside “temporaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16336, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
temporaire is recorded at frequency rank #5,195, classified as anadj, pronounced \tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛʁ\. temporaires is at rank #11,141, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁɛʁ\.
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 16336, this pair ranks #388,295 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of temporaire vs temporaires
Shared letters: aeimoprt. Private to "temporaire": -. Private to "temporaires": s.
"temporaire" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCV · "temporaires" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- temporaire ← etmporaire · temmporaire · temopraire · tempoarire · temporaier · temporairre · temporarie · temporiare
- temporaires ← etmporaires · temmporaires · temopraires · tempoarires · temporaiers · temporairess · temporairres · temporairse
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "temporaire" for "temporaires" ever safe?
Frequency check: "temporaire" vs "temporaires" - which ranks higher?
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 "temporaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "temporaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #388,295 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "temporaire" and "temporaires" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "téméraires vs temporaires". 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 #388,295 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.