Which to use
“tirage” and “tirages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,627
- “tirage” frequency rank
- #20,587
- “tirages” frequency rank
- 25214
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tirage | tirages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de tirer, de déplacer, de mouvoir dans une direction. | Pluriel de tirage. |
Same sound, different letters: tirage vs tirages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. tirage runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against tirages's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: tirage vs tirages
This is the hard kind. tirage and tirages are pronounced identically (\ti.ʁaʒ\) 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) - “tirage” sits inside “tirages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25214, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
tirage is recorded at frequency rank #4,627, classified as anoun, pronounced \ti.ʁaʒ\. tirages is at rank #20,587, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ti.ʁaʒ\.
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 25214, this pair ranks #342,142 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of tirage vs tirages
Shared letters: aegirt. Private to "tirage": -. Private to "tirages": s.
"tirage" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "tirages" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "tirage" for "tirages" ever safe?
Frequency check: "tirage" vs "tirages" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"tirage" and "tirages" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "tirage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tirages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #342,142 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tirage" and "tirages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tirages vs titrage". 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 #342,142 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.