Which to use
“transport” and “transports” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,172
- “transport” frequency rank
- #1,725
- “transports” frequency rank
- 2897
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | transport | transports |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de porter d’un lieu à un autre sur une certaine distance. | Pluriel de transport. |
Same sound, different letters: transport vs transports
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. transport runs 9 letters (CCVCCCVCC) against transports's 10 (CCVCCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: transport vs transports
This is the hard kind. transport and transports are pronounced identically (\tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ\) 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) - “transport” sits inside “transports”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2897, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
transport is recorded at frequency rank #1,172, classified as anoun, pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ\. transports is at rank #1,725, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ\.
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 2897, this pair ranks #435,253 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of transport vs transports
Shared letters: anoprst. Private to "transport": -. Private to "transports": -.
"transport" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCCVCC · "transports" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- transport ← rtansport · tarnsport · trannsport · tranpsort · transoprt · transporrt · transportt · transpotr
- transports ← rtansports · tarnsports · trannsports · tranpsorts · transoprts · transporrts · transporst · transportss
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "transport" and "transports" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "transport" or "transports"?
Useful next steps
"transport" and "transports" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "transport" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "transports" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #435,253 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "transport" and "transports" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "transport vs transposé". 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 #435,253 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.