Which to use
“abusive” and “abusives” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,725
- “abusive” frequency rank
- #30,448
- “abusives” frequency rank
- 50173
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | abusive | abusives |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de abusif. | Féminin pluriel de abusif. |
Same sound, different letters: abusive vs abusives
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: abusive vs abusives
This is the hard kind. abusive and abusives are pronounced identically (\a.by.ziv\) 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) - “abusive” sits inside “abusives”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50173, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
abusive is recorded at frequency rank #19,725, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.by.ziv\. abusives is at rank #30,448, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.by.ziv\.
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 50173, this pair ranks #164,719 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of abusive vs abusives
Shared letters: abeisuv. Private to "abusive": -. Private to "abusives": -.
"abusive" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV · "abusives" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "abusive" and "abusives" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "abusive" vs "abusives" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "abusive" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "abusives" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #164,719 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "abusive" and "abusives" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "abusifs vs abusives". 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 #164,719 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.