verrièrevsverrièresWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: verrière is a noun, verrières is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“verrière” is a noun and “verrières” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#28,399
“verrière” frequency rank
#35,321
“verrières” frequency rank
63720
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature verrière verrières
Definition Baie vitrée située soit en toiture, soit en façade. Féminin pluriel de verrier.

Same sound, different letters: verrière vs verrières

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. verrière runs 8 letters (CVCCVVCV) against verrières's 9 (CVCCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
verrière
9 ch
verrières

Homophone desk: verrière vs verrières

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: verrière and verrières carry the same recorded pronunciation, \vɛ.ʁjɛʁ\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “verrière” sits inside “verrières”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63720, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

verrière is recorded at frequency rank #28,399, classified as anoun, pronounced \vɛ.ʁjɛʁ\. verrières is at rank #35,321, tagged as anadj, pronounced \vɛ.ʁjɛʁ\.

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 63720, this pair ranks #80,542 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of verrière vs verrières

Shared letters: eirvè. Private to "verrière": -. Private to "verrières": s.

"verrière" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVCV  ·  "verrières" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "verrière" and "verrières" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "verrière" is a noun and "verrières" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "verrière" vs "verrières" - which ranks higher?
"verrière" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,399 in our French list, against #35,321 for "verrières". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "verrière" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "verrières" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #80,542 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "verrière" and "verrières" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "verrières vs verriers". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #80,542 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