Which to use
“vacant” and “vacants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,598
- “vacant” frequency rank
- #20,310
- “vacants” frequency rank
- 40908
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | vacant | vacants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui n’est pas occupé ou qui est à remplir, en parlant des maisons, lieux et places qui ne sont pas occupés. | Masculin pluriel de vacant. |
Same sound, different letters: vacant vs vacants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. vacant runs 6 letters (CVCVCC) against vacants's 7 (CVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - vacant / vacants
This is the hard kind. vacant and vacants are pronounced identically (\va.kɑ̃\) 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) - “vacant” sits inside “vacants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40908, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
vacant is recorded at frequency rank #20,598, classified as anadj, pronounced \va.kɑ̃\. vacants is at rank #20,310, tagged as anadj, pronounced \va.kɑ̃\.
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 40908, this pair ranks #236,998 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of vacant vs vacants
Shared letters: acntv. Private to "vacant": -. Private to "vacants": s.
"vacant" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC · "vacants" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "vacant" and "vacants" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "vacant" vs "vacants" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "vacant" / "vacants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "vacant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "vacants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #236,998 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "vacant" and "vacants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vacant vs vacante". 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 #236,998 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.