Which to use
“violent” and “violents” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,970
- “violent” frequency rank
- #5,938
- “violents” frequency rank
- 9908
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | violent | violents |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est impétueux, qui agit avec impétuosité, avec une force non contenue, en parlant des évènements, des choses ou des personnes et de leurs actes. | Masculin pluriel de violent. |
Same sound, different letters: violent vs violents
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - violent and violents
This is the hard kind. violent and violents are pronounced identically (\vjɔ.lɑ̃\) 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) - “violent” sits inside “violents”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9908, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
violent is recorded at frequency rank #3,970, classified as anadj, pronounced \vjɔ.lɑ̃\. violents is at rank #5,938, tagged as anadj, pronounced \vjɔ.lɑ̃\.
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 9908, this pair ranks #414,967 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of violent vs violents
Shared letters: eilnotv. Private to "violent": -. Private to "violents": s.
"violent" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC · "violents" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "violent" for "violents" ever safe?
Which is more common, "violent" or "violents"?
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 "violent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "violents" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #414,967 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "violent" and "violents" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "violait vs violent". 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 #414,967 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.