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Which to use

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

#3,576
“titulaire” frequency rank
#8,048
“titulaires” frequency rank
11624
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature titulaire titulaires
Definition Qui a le titre et le droit d’une dignité sans en avoir la possession, sans en remplir la fonction. Pluriel de titulaire.

Same sound, different letters: titulaire vs titulaires

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. titulaire runs 9 letters (CVCVCVVCV) against titulaires's 10 (CVCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
titulaire
10 ch
titulaires

Homophone desk: titulaire vs titulaires

This is the hard kind. titulaire and titulaires are pronounced identically (\ti.ty.lɛʁ\) 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) - “titulaire” sits inside “titulaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11624, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

titulaire is recorded at frequency rank #3,576, classified as anadj, pronounced \ti.ty.lɛʁ\. titulaires is at rank #8,048, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ti.ty.lɛʁ\.

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 11624, this pair ranks #408,445 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of titulaire vs titulaires

Shared letters: aeilrtu. Private to "titulaire": -. Private to "titulaires": s.

"titulaire" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVCV  ·  "titulaires" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • titulaire ← ittulaire · titluaire · tittulaire · titualire · titulaier · titulairre · titularie · tituliare
  • titulaires ← ittulaires · titluaires · tittulaires · titualires · titulaiers · titulairess · titulairres · titulairse

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "titulaire" and "titulaires" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ti.ty.lɛʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "titulaire" vs "titulaires" - which ranks higher?
"titulaire" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,576 in our French list, against #8,048 for "titulaires". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"titulaire" and "titulaires" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "titulaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "titulaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #408,445 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "titulaire" and "titulaires" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "titulaire vs tutélaire". 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 #408,445 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