Which to use
“vautour” and “vautours” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #30,418
- “vautour” frequency rank
- #23,409
- “vautours” frequency rank
- 53827
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | vautour | vautours |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Oiseau rapace charognard, à tête et à col nus. | Pluriel de vautour. |
Same sound, different letters: vautour vs vautours
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. vautour runs 7 letters (CVVCVVC) against vautours's 8 (CVVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - vautour and vautours
This is the hard kind. vautour and vautours are pronounced identically (\vo.tuʁ\) 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) - “vautour” sits inside “vautours”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53827, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
vautour is recorded at frequency rank #30,418, classified as anoun, pronounced \vo.tuʁ\. vautours is at rank #23,409, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vo.tuʁ\.
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 53827, this pair ranks #138,105 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of vautour vs vautours
Shared letters: aortuv. Private to "vautour": -. Private to "vautours": s.
"vautour" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC · "vautours" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "vautour" for "vautours" ever safe?
Which is more common, "vautour" or "vautours"?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "vautour" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "vautours" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #138,105 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "vautour" and "vautours" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vaudou vs vautour". 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 #138,105 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.