traducteur vs traducteurs

Which to use

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

#11,142
“traducteur” frequency rank: #20,007
“traducteurs” frequency rank: 31149
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	traducteur	traducteurs
Definition	Celui qui traduit un texte ou une parole d’une langue en une autre.	Pluriel de traducteur.

Same sound, different letters: traducteur vs traducteurs

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. traducteur runs 10 letters (CCVCVCCVVC) against traducteurs's 11 (CCVCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch

traducteur

11 ch

traducteurs

Ear matches; page differs - traducteur and traducteurs

This is the hard kind. traducteur and traducteurs are pronounced identically (\tʁa.dyk.tœʁ\) 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) - “traducteur” sits inside “traducteurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31149, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

traducteur is recorded at frequency rank #11,142, classified as anoun, pronounced \tʁa.dyk.tœʁ\. traducteurs is at rank #20,007, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tʁa.dyk.tœʁ\.

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 31149, this pair ranks #305,655 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of traducteur vs traducteurs

Shared letters: acdertu. Private to "traducteur": -. Private to "traducteurs": s.

"traducteur" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVC · "traducteurs" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

traducteur ← rtaducteur · tarducteur · tradcuteur · tradducteur · traduccteur · traducetur · traducteru · traducteurr
traducteurs ← rtaducteurs · tarducteurs · tradcuteurs · tradducteurs · traduccteurs · traduceturs · traducterus · traducteurrs

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "traducteur" and "traducteurs" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\tʁa.dyk.tœʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

In ordinary French text, does "traducteur" or "traducteurs" show up more?

"traducteur" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,142 in our French list, against #20,007 for "traducteurs". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "traducteur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "traducteurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #305,655 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"traducteur" and "traducteurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tracteurs vs traducteurs". 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 #305,655 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.