Which to use
“week” and “weeks” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,244
- “week” frequency rank
- #44,264
- “weeks” frequency rank
- 45508
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | week | weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Week-end. | Pluriel de week. |
Same sound, different letters: week vs weeks
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - week and weeks
This is the hard kind. week and weeks are pronounced identically (\wik\) 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) - “week” sits inside “weeks”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45508, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
week is recorded at frequency rank #1,244, classified as anoun, pronounced \wik\. weeks is at rank #44,264, tagged as anoun, pronounced \wik\.
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 45508, this pair ranks #202,229 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of week vs weeks
Shared letters: ekw. Private to "week": -. Private to "weeks": s.
"week" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "weeks" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "week" and "weeks" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "week" or "weeks" show up more?
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 "week" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "weeks" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #202,229 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "week" and "weeks" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "weekly vs weeks". 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 #202,229 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.