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

#13,705
“toiture” frequency rank
#24,057
“toitures” frequency rank
37762
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature toiture toitures
Definition Ce qui compose le toit d’une maison, d’un bâtiment. Pluriel de toiture.

Same sound, different letters: toiture vs toitures

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

7 ch
toiture
8 ch
toitures

Same sound, different spelling - toiture / toitures

This is the hard kind. toiture and toitures are pronounced identically (\twa.tyʁ\) 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) - “toiture” sits inside “toitures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37762, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

toiture is recorded at frequency rank #13,705, classified as anoun, pronounced \twa.tyʁ\. toitures is at rank #24,057, tagged as anoun, pronounced \twa.tyʁ\.

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 37762, this pair ranks #260,102 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of toiture vs toitures

Shared letters: eiortu. Private to "toiture": -. Private to "toitures": s.

"toiture" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV  ·  "toitures" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • toitureotiture · tioture · toitrue · toitture · toituer · toiturre · toiutre · totiure
  • toituresotitures · tiotures · toitrues · toittures · toituers · toituress · toiturres · toiturse

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "toiture" and "toitures" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\twa.tyʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "toiture" vs "toitures" - which ranks higher?
"toiture" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,705 in our French list, against #24,057 for "toitures". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "toiture" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "toitures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #260,102 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "toiture" and "toitures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "titrés vs toitures". 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 #260,102 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