Which to use
“village” and “villages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,079
- “village” frequency rank
- #3,426
- “villages” frequency rank
- 4505
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | village | villages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Groupe d’habitations rurales. | Pluriel de village. |
Same sound, different letters: village vs villages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. village runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against villages's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: village vs villages
This is the hard kind. village and villages are pronounced identically (\vi.laʒ\) 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) - “village” sits inside “villages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4505, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
village is recorded at frequency rank #1,079, classified as anoun, pronounced \vi.laʒ\. villages is at rank #3,426, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vi.laʒ\.
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 4505, this pair ranks #431,433 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of village vs villages
Shared letters: aegilv. Private to "village": -. Private to "villages": s.
"village" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "villages" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "village" for "villages" ever safe?
Frequency check: "village" vs "villages" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"village" and "villages" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "village" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "villages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #431,433 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "village" and "villages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "village vs villani". 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 #431,433 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.