Which to use
“tireur” and “tireurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,936
- “tireur” frequency rank
- #16,753
- “tireurs” frequency rank
- 25689
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tireur | tireurs |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celui qui tire, aux divers sens du mot. | Pluriel de tireur. |
Same sound, different letters: tireur vs tireurs
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - tireur / tireurs
This is the hard kind. tireur and tireurs are pronounced identically (\ti.ʁœʁ\) 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) - “tireur” sits inside “tireurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25689, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
tireur is recorded at frequency rank #8,936, classified as anoun, pronounced \ti.ʁœʁ\. tireurs is at rank #16,753, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ti.ʁœʁ\.
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 25689, this pair ranks #339,425 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of tireur vs tireurs
Shared letters: eirtu. Private to "tireur": -. Private to "tireurs": s.
"tireur" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "tireurs" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "tireur" and "tireurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "tireur" or "tireurs"?
Useful next steps
"tireur" and "tireurs" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "tireur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tireurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #339,425 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tireur" and "tireurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "terreurs vs tireurs". 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 #339,425 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.